Science Is Essentially An Anarchic Enterprise: Theoretical

Human Paint, Produce Films And Videos; They Dance, Dream And Make Music; They Engage In Political Action, Exchange Goods, Perform Rituals, Build Houses Start Wars, Act In Plays, Try To Please Patrons- And So On... They Contain Patterns, Press The Practitioners To "conform" And In This Way Mold Their Thought, Their Perception, Their Actions, And Their Discriminative Abilities.

A Free Society Is A Society In Which All Traditions Have Equal Rights And Equal Access To The Centers Of Power. A Tradition Receives These Rights Not Because The Importance The Cash Value, As It Were) It Has For Outsiders But Because It Gives Meaning To The Lives Of Those Who Participate In It.

There Is Not A Single Rule, However Plausible, And However Firmly Grounded In Epistemology, That Is Not Violated At Some Time Or Other. It Becomes Evident That Such Violations Are Not Accidental Events, They Are Not Results Of Insufficient Knowledge Or Of Inattention Which Might Have Been Avoided. On The Contrary, We See That They Are Necessary For Progress.

Every Profession Has An Ideology And A Drive For Power That Goes Far Beyond Its Achievements And It Is The Task Of Democracy To Keep This Ideology And This Drive Under Control. Science Is Here No Different From Other Institutions.

Science Is Much Closer To Myth Than A Scientific Philosophy Is Prepared To Admit. It Is One Of The Many Forms Of Thought That Have Been Developed By Man, And Not Necessarily The Best. It Is Conspicuous, Noisy, And Impudent, But It Is Inherently Superior Only For Those Who Have Already Decided In Favour Of A Certain Ideology, Or Who Have Accepted It Without Ever Having Examined Its Advantages And Its Limits.