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What is surprising is that almost all the trends that developed within the sciences, aristotelianism and an extreme platonism included, produced results, not only in special domains, but everywhere; there exist highly theoretical branches of biology and highly empirical parts of astrophysics. the world is a complex an many-sided thing.
-Paul Feyerabend
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What Is Surprising Is That Almost All

Paul Feyerabend
What is surprising is that almost all the trends that developed within the sciences, aristotelianism and an extreme platonism included, produced results, not only in special domains, but everywhere; there exist highly theoretical branches of biology and highly empirical parts of astrophysics. the world is a complex an many-sided thing.
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