Paul Feyerabend Quotes About Tradition

Quotes about: Tradition

• Science is neither a single tradition, nor the best tradition there is, except for people who have become accustomed to its presence, its benefits and its disadvantages. In a democracy it should be separated from the state just as churches are now separated from the state.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, People, Democracy

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.238, Verso

• Traditions are neither good nor bad, they simply are... Rationality is not an arbiter of traditions, it is itself a tradition or an aspect of a tradition.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Tradition, Aspect, Arbiter

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.225, Verso

• 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.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Rights, Giving, Cash

  "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.

• Results from a given approach are "facts" as long as the approach fits the group or the tradition that is being addressed.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Long, Groups, Facts

  "Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Richness". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1999.

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