Feyerabend

Feyerabend’s “there is no idea that is not capable of improving our knowledge.”

‘remote applicability’, “it is easy to massage a problem in biology, say, until it succumbs to the tricks of our trade -- and is of no use to biologists”. Database metatheory: asking the big queries, Christos Papadimitriou, PODS 95..

It is darkest before the dawn
http://www.weekdaywisdom.com/mm030705.htm

"Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality of the men who, surrounded by a sceptical world, have shown the way to those like-minded with themselves, scattered through the earth and the centuries. " Religion and Science, The following excerpt was published in The World as I See It (1999). by Albert Einstein