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
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This quote is about how progress is achieved by challenging long-existing and well-established forms of life with new and unorthodox methods. The key to progress lies in probing these established systems with new ideas and techniques, until the old system can no longer withstand the pressure.

Source: Problems Of Empiricism: Philosophical Papers: Problems Of Empiricism V. 2 (Philosophical Papers

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