Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes
Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.
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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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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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When I was fourteen years old, our family drove all the way from Vancouver to Newfoundland and back. I've been all across the great land of Canada. I absolutely love the Maritimes, and I'm very excited to go back, particularly in the fall when it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
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Giving opens the way for receiving.
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Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to die, or why Mr. Fortune and Mary Fortune: I just feel in my bones that that is the way it has to be. If I had the abstraction first I don't suppose I would write the story.
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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
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I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.
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Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.
