Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes
The transition between competing paradigms cannot be made a step at a time, forced by logic and neutral experience. Like the gestalt switch, it must occur all at once (though not necessarily in an instant) or not at all.
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can't be easily defined in zeros and ones.
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We can know that the Christian God cannot exist. If he is all-powerful and all-good, as Christians maintain, there would not have been, for instance, the Holocaust. This is an inherent self-contradiction. So if Christians insist on having a God, they can do so, but if they have any respect for logic they'll have to redefine who he is.
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Rosemary’s reputation was known; he would, by obscure logic, become retrospectively a cuckold.
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All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.
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Logic is one thing and commonsense another.
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Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so, and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
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When we learned to play in bands, what we were covering was equal part the Velvet Underground and the Grateful Dead. That would defy the logic that somehow these things don't fit in the same musical well.
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Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.
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A song sometimes ends up with its own internal logic.
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Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
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If you go to business school, and you put a product out there in the world, and it's working, the logic is to keep putting the same product out there. And I think that really bumps up against the creative process - and moviemaking, generally. And I think that our company really pushes against that.
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I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.
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You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.
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We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.
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Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
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My characters are not role-model Muslims, but they struggle to make choices using Muslim logic.
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.
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There is evil out there you cannot even imagine. -Captain Widdershins
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I'm a people's person, believe it or not. I just have a dark side to me, which we all do.
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I'm really a sucker for old, old movies. Like old film noir. I don't know. I also really enjoy independent movies.
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The transition between competing paradigms cannot be made a step at a time, forced by logic and neutral experience. Like the gestalt switch, it must occur all at once (though not necessarily in an instant) or not at all.
