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Thursday, 10 May 2007

Day 75

Feyerabend, P.

My criticism of modern science is that it inhibits freedom of thought. If the reason is that it has found the truth and now follows it then I would say that there are better things than first finding, and then following, such a monster.

‘How To Defend Society Against Science’ in The Rationality of Scientific Revolutions edited by I. Hacking (OUP, Oxford) p. 158. Reprinted from Radical Philosophy, 2, Summer 175 p. 48.

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