“Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems.”
Paul Karl Feyerabend
Problems of Empiricism: Volume 2: Philosophical Papers
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