"Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives."

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Source : Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.5, Verso

Paul Feyerabend

#Order Quotes #Law Quotes #Progress Quotes

“A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game.”
“You need to face, you need to confront, and really properly look at what's happening, and not try and explain it away or give it justifications or anything, because at this juncture, we still, by our finger nails, have the chance to make a difference, and turn this around. And to not take part and to just watchâ€¦â€¦.., but if you don't push back, if you don't face it and confront it for what it is, it'll just takeover, and then no one will be free.”
“It's not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It's about doing what you love with love. Then your life and all be transformed.”
“Was I involved in selling drivers licenses to people illegally? Hell no I wasn't. Would I have tolerated it? Hell no.”
“You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.”
“These are the kinds of things a guy thinks about when he visits his own grave.”
“A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that he has feelings.”

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