Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes
All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case that will most concern us here, a crisis may end with the emergence of a new candidate for paradigm and with the ensuing battle over its acceptance.
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But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep fighting for what you believe in, because it's only when you stop that you've truly lost.
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Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.
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I speak very highly of Jim Thome. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great individual.
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Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.
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I used to pay attention to the clouds in the sky.. .I paid close attention for a month to see if they ever repeated. They don't repeat. And I don't think life does either. It's continually various. That's the truth about life.
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There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.
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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
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Too many investors overvalue companies in the near term while undervaluing them in the long term.
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You could be a corrupt doctor, but at least you have to go to the medical school first. Right?
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I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.
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Each new technology is a reprogramming of sensory life. (p. 33)
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Very worried and nerveux for 1944. Life is dark – as is death. Close 1943.
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I thought it was a very cute song. I just picked them out because I liked them. I wasn't trying to make any statements.
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If you just say nothing, there is no way they can make you talk.
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When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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Of course there is no formila for success except perhaps and unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
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My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.
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The wino and I know the pain of back bustin'.
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On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.
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All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case that will most concern us here, a crisis may end with the emergence of a new candidate for paradigm and with the ensuing battle over its acceptance.
