Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes

The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.

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• Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • City
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  • Same

• I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.

  

  Edgar Bergen
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  • You
  • Questions

• Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Up
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  • Food

• When I'm looking for hot button answers to tough questions, I don't look to congressman or my mayor. I say, 'What would Miss U.S.A. have to say about this?'

  

  Dane Cook
  • Look
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  • Tough

• I've learnt some important lessons: I never rely on the opinion of one doctor alone. I do my own research; I read up and am ready with questions I need answered.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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  • Alone

• I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
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• Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.

  

  Carice van Houten
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  • Cat

• When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Life
  • Silly

• 'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Life
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• When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Life
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• I find myself asking questions that as a filmmaker I never thought I would ask. Like I get a call from a magazine for a feature and my first question is, 'Cover or not?' Interview invite from a leading channel? I have stopped asking the topic. I'm just like 'Primetime or not?' If I am invited and put in the second row, I can be distraught for days!

  

  Karan Johar
  • Question
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • You
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  • Computers

• If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.

  

  Oliver Stone
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• And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
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• I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'

  

  Harrison Ford
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  • Thoughtful

• That's what representative democracy is about, is members going to Washington but coming home and answering the tough questions.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Home
  • Democracy
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• Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Long
  • Search
  • Questions

• I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • People
  • Questions
  • Answer

• The dilemma in U.S. culture is that we don’t really distinguish what I am defining as Humble Inquiry carefully enough from leading questions, rhetorical questions, embarrassing questions, or statements in the form of questions—such as journalists seem to love— which are deliberately provocative and intended to put you down.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Love
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  • Journalists

• Small movie, small role, giant movie, giant role. Work is work. You've got to tell the truth and show up.

  

  Michael Keaton
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Role

• My God, Bobby Fischer plays so simply.

  

  Alexey Suetin
  • Play
  • Simply
  • Bobby Fischer

• With every project, you feel like you're trying to find your place to vent. For any actor, that's typically the feeling that drives you to do it.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Trying
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• The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
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