Theory && Practice
"If you think education is expensive -- try ignorance."
– Ann Landers, October 4, 1975.
"Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them."
– Epictetus, 'Enchiridion'
"Theories usually result from the precipitate reasoning of an impatient mind which would like to be rid of phenomena and replace them with images, concepts, indeed often with mere words."
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 'Maxims and Reflections' (1833).
"How can we possibly test, or improve upon the truth of a theory if it is built in such a manner then any conceivable event can be described, and explained, in terms of its principles? The only way of investigating such all-embracing principles would be to compare them with a different set of equally all embracing principles- but this procedure has been excluded from the very beginning."
– Paul Feyerabend, 'Against Method' (1975).
Theory && Practice
"If you think education is expensive -- try ignorance."
– Ann Landers, October 4, 1975.
"Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them."
– Epictetus, 'Enchiridion'
"Theories usually result from the precipitate reasoning of an impatient mind which would like to be rid of phenomena and replace them with images, concepts, indeed often with mere words."
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 'Maxims and Reflections' (1833).
"How can we possibly test, or improve upon the truth of a theory if it is built in such a manner then any conceivable event can be described, and explained, in terms of its principles? The only way of investigating such all-embracing principles would be to compare them with a different set of equally all embracing principles- but this procedure has been excluded from the very beginning."
– Paul Feyerabend, 'Against Method' (1975).