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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Conformity is dangerous.
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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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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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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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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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I guess I've got a smart wife.
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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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I'm not usually absolutely speechless.
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I've never been aware of the difference between so-called posh actors and working-class actors.
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Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean.
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This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy - deep down. May you be happy too. I'm going to Fontainebleau on Monday and I'll be back here Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. All is well.
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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.
