In A War A Totalitarian

A Scientist, An Artist, A Citizen Is Not Like A Child Who Needs Papa Methodology And Mama Rationality To Give Him Security And Direction, He Can Take Care Of Himself, For He Is The Inventor Not Only Of Laws, Theories, Pictures, Plays, Forms Of Music, Ways Of Dealing With His Fellow Man, Institutions, But Also Entire World View, He Is The Inventor Of Entire Forms Of Like.

The Validity Of Usefulness, Adequacy Of Popular Standards Can Be Tested Only By Research That Violates Them.

Given Any Rule, However "fundamental" Or "necessary" For Science, There Are Always Circumstances When It Is Advisable Not Only To Ignore The Rule, But To Adopt Its Opposite. For Example, There Are Circumstances When It Is Advisable To Introduce, Elaborate And Defend Ad Hoc Hypotheses, Or Hypotheses Which Contradict Well-established And Generally Accepted Experimental Results, Or Hypotheses Whose Content Is Smaller Than The Content Of The Existing And Empirically Adequate Alternative, Or Self-inconsistent Hypotheses, And So On.

Not Only Are Facts And Theories In Constant Disharmony, They Are Never As Neatly Separated As Everyone Makes Them Out To Be.

All Religions Are Good 'in Principle' - But Unfortunately This Abstract Good Has Only Rarely Prevented Their Practitioners From Behaving Like Bastards.