It Is Often Assumed That Science Starts

It Is Clear, Then, That The Idea Of A Fixed Method, Or Of A Fixed Theory Of Rationality, Rests On Too Naive A View Of Man And His Social Surroundings. To Those Who Look At The Rich Material Provided By History, And Who Are Not Intent On Impoverishing It In Order To Please Their Lower Instincts, Their Craving For Intellectual Security In The Form Of Clarity, Precision, "objectivity," "truth," It Will Become Clear That There Is Only One Principle That Can Be Defended Under All Circumstances And In All Stages Of Human Development. It Is The Principle: Anything Goes.

Science Is Only ‘one’ Of The Many Instruments People Invented To Cope With Their Surroundings. It Is Not The Only One, It Is Not Infallible And It Has Become Too Powerful, Too Pushy And Too Dangerous To Be Left On Its Own.

Those Who Violate The Rules Of A Language Do Not Enter New Territory; They Leave The Domain Of Meaningful Discourse. Even Facts In These Circumstances Dissolve, Because They Are Shaped By The Language And Subjected To Its Limitations.

The Best Education Consists In Immunizing People Against Systematic Attempts At Education.

Events And Developments, Such As ... The Copernican Revolution, ... Occurred Only Because Some Thinkers Either Decided Not To Be Bound By Certain "obvious" Methodological Rules, Or Because They Unwittingly Broke Them.