First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure group. (Paul Karl Feyerabend)

First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure group.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

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