Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes
What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
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I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.
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My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
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The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.
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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
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In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.
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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
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Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.
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My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.
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Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
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I always carry a good lipstick with me, like MAC in Ruby Woo. It has a matt finish, the essence of that vintage glamour look.
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If I'm not in the mood to deal with you, then I just don't deal with you. I look at it like, me not dealing with you could save me a lot of trouble - me forcing myself to deal with you could bring me a lot of trouble. So I just play it by ear.
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From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.
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Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.
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I love Las Vegas. I like that Las Vegas has everything. Everything and anything you want to do, you can do in Las Vegas.
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I have no aspirations of growing old and boring.
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When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.
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There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.
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What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.
