Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes
Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.

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There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing myself. I explore my characters; I don't brood over my broody image.
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I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.
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I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.
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A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
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Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
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We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.
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All labels are offensive in some way.
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If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
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Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
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I've now been in over 100 adverts for Walkers, and we've had a lot of laughs along the way.
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I don't believe in regime change, certainly not in the Middle East.
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Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.
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But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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We collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare.
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History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
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Every time you make something that somebody likes, your impulse is to remind them that if you hadn't made some of these other things that they hated, you wouldn't have been able to make the thing that they liked.
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The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else.
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Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.