Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes
Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language.

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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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I love to be surprised.
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.
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All my tattoos except my first were not planned. I would just go into the shop late at night with friends and ask for something on the spot. My first is my parents' wedding date. I thought it would soften the blow of getting a tattoo.
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Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.
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The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.
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Half of life-the interesting half of life-we don't even have a name for.
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Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.
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A solution to stop gang banging: SNOW!!
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(We are) the herpes of American cinema (because) we aren't going anywhere...
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The idea of going somewhere where the salesperson is able to personalize the retail experience for you doesn't work anymore. Stitch Fix is an opportunity to provide a service for people who are looking for more than just buying the cheapest thing with one-day shipping.
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I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.
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Everyone has issues, and I'm not someone who likes to burden people.
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One of the great things about the 'Arrow' crew is that no one is settling for what they did yesterday. They're always thinking about what they can do tomorrow.
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The runway isn't just about showing fashion, it's about gaining confidence. And I really believe that once you've got your confidence, you can wear anything, you can do anything.
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In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.
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It's the inner that produces the outer.
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Let a man overcome anger by love.
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When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them, but at least you're very strong. In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain, more and more loss and it makes you more fragile.
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The guy goes into the stands. How'd he pull it out? If I was a fan, I would've mauled him.
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Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Eddie Cantor... help us keep our balance.
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Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language.