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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.

Unanimity Of Opinion May Be Fitting For A Church, For The Frightened Or Greedy Victims Of Some (ancient, Or Modern) Myth, Or For The Weak And Willing Followers Of Some Tyrant. Variety Of Opinion Is Necessary For Objective Knowledge. And A Method That Encourages Variety Is Also The Only Method That Is Comparable With A Humanitarian Outlook.

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.

The Idea Of A Method That Contains Firm, Unchanging, And Absolutely Binding Principles For Conducting The Business Of Science Meets Considerable Difficulty When Confronted With The Results Of Historical Research. We Find, Then, That There Is Not A Single Rule, However Plausible, And However Firmly Grounded In Epistemology, That Is Not Violated At Some Time Or Another.

One Knows Quite Well That Harmony Can Be A Harmony Of Appearances.