Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes

Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and conceive another set that can replace them.

Thomas Kuhn

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• Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • God
  • Said
  • Thank God

• I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Love
  • Happens
  • Saying

• The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Truth
  • American
  • America

• Dead men tell no tales.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Men
  • Dead
  • Tell

• The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • War
  • Wedding
  • Queen

• A lot of people I've played with see me as a scorer and a shooter. I'm still fast and everything like that, but then, when they see me dunk, it's like 'Oh, damn.'

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Me
  • Fast

• I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • You
  • Space
  • Never

• Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Bad
  • Desire

• I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself.

  

  Chet Baker
  • Believe
  • Die
  • Nice

• People see me doing something so all of the guys from my walk of life feel like if he can do it, I can do it. That just keeps spreading and spreading and spreading.

  

  T.I.
  • People
  • Life

• Once you get to a certain level, anybody can beat anybody else on any given day.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Certain
  • Given
  • Levels

• Confidence was never in short supply in my case. If anything, I think I overshot the mark with confidence way too early in my career, and gradually, it's about just getting more humble and wanting to sit down more.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Career
  • Confidence
  • Humble

• With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?

  

  Marcello Mastroianni
  • Mother
  • Friend
  • Course

• Being a girl didn't really affect me until I entered junior high and had to wear skirts, curl my hair, and even get used to panty hose. However, my hatred of panty hose helped make me a writer who only wears comfortable clothes. I've successfully avoided panty hose for most of my life.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Life
  • High
  • Girl

• There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.

  

  Kamila Shamsie
  • She
  • Dream
  • Free

• I'm a semi-literate farmer and hired killer. I ain't in the power game.

  

  John Marston
  • Games
  • Farmers
  • Killers

• The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and for particular individuals. Absolute truth is imaginary, abstract, vague, without evidence, and cannot be demonstrated.

  

  Hu Shih
  • Existence
  • Individual
  • Mankind

• I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Women
  • Married
  • Property

• Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and conceive another set that can replace them.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Games
  • Individual
  • Break