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.

Thomas Kuhn

• Logic
• Instant
• Competing
• Paradigm
• Gestalt

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• I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • War
  • Justice
  • Revolution

• Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Music
  • Art
  • Poetry

• When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Business

• I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Remember

• Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

  

  Maimonides
  • Study
  • Logic
  • Perfection

• No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Mistake
  • Common
  • Logic

• 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.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Heart
  • Black
  • Brain

• 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.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Good
  • God
  • Respect

• Rosemary’s reputation was known; he would, by obscure logic, become retrospectively a cuckold.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Logic

• 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.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Heaven
  • Logic

• Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

  

  Logic
  • Logic

• 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.

  

  Logic
  • Art
  • May
  • Confidence

• 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.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Logic

• 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.

  

  Lee Strasberg
  • Up
  • Logic
  • Preparation

• A song sometimes ends up with its own internal logic.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Up
  • Song
  • Logic

• Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Truth
  • Logic

• 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.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

  

  Fred Hoyle
  • Logic

• You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.

  

  Pierre Bonnard
  • Color
  • Drawing
  • Logic

• We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

  

  David Russell
  • World
  • Live
  • Logic

• I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Family
  • Father
  • Identity

• What today's decision will stand for, whether the Justices can bring themselves to say it or not, is the power of the Supreme Court to write a prophylactic, extraconstitutional Constitution, binding on Congress and the States.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Power
  • Today
  • Decision

• It's very hard for me to go to the movies because I know all the tricks, and I know everybody. I don't watch many at all. And the ones I do watch are generally much older films.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Know
  • Movies
  • Hard

• 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.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Logic
  • Instant
  • Competing