26th February

The closer we try to get to nature (by the method of trying to fit nature into boxes designed by us) the further we get away from it.

Letter to Thomas S. Kuhn (1961), "Two Letters of Paul Feyerabend to Thomas S. Kuhn on a Draft of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" Paul Hoyningen-Huene (ed.), Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 26:3 (September 1995), p.358.