Killing Time

PORTRAIT in 100: Paul Feyerabend has often been portrayed as science's greatest critic, even its enemy, a cognitive anarchist who constantly attacked rationality. It is 100 years since the rabulist was born. Feyerabend gave us a new image of science as imperfect and impossible to perfect in a rigorous method. And in the extension of Feyerabend's arguments, Arne Næss thought there was every reason to be careful about intervening in foreign cultures – just as we should also be careful about intervening in soil or other ecosystems.