No Single Theory Ever Agrees

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

I Had Studied Dadaism After The Second World War. What Attracted Me To This Movement Was The Style Its Inventors Used When Not Engaged In Dadaistic Activities. It Was Clear, Luminous, Simple Without Being Banal, Precise Without Being Narrow; It Was A Style Adapted To The Expression Of Thought As Well As Of Emotion. I Connected This Style With The Dadaistic Exercises Themselves

The Material Which A Scientist Actually Has At His Disposal, His Laws, His Experimental Results, His Mathematical Techniques, His Epistemological Prejudices, His Attitude Towards The Absurd Consequences Of The Theories Which He Accepts, Is Indeterminate In Many Ways, Ambiguous, And Never Fully Separated From The Historical Background . This Material Is Always Contaminated By Principles Which He Does Not Know And Which, If Known, Would Be Extremely Hard To Test.

An Anarchist Is Like An Undercover Agent Who Plays The Game Of Reason In Order To Undercut The Authority Of Reason (truth, Honesty, Justice And So On).

Copernicanism And Other Essential Ingredients Of Modern Science Survived Only Because Reason Was Frequently Overruled In Their Past.