Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes

All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking.

Thomas Kuhn

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• Sometimes when these kinds of things happen, it can seem a little bit too much to bear. But what I want the people of Louisiana know is that you're not alone on this. Even after the TV cameras leave, the whole country is going to continue to support you and help you until we get folks back in their homes and lives are rebuilt.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • Help

• Harry ran upstairs to their dark dormitory. He pulled out the cloak and then his eyes fell on the flute Hagrid had given him for Christmas. He pocketed it to use on Fluffy — he didn’t feel much like singing.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Eyes
  • Dark
  • Singing

• For us to win a VMA without even dropping our first album was kind of amazing. It felt like a dream, and then I woke up the next morning like, 'Oh my God - I've got a Moonman!'

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Dream
  • First Album
  • Moonman

• I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

  

  Georgina Chapman
  • Mother
  • Career
  • Self

• Sometimes, you don't realize what you have until you wake up and go 'Damn.'

  

  August Alsina
  • Realize
  • Have
  • Wake Up

• Each force in flight is balanced by an opposing force. The opposite of lift is weight. Weight is always trying to pull an object back to earth, so to get something to stay up, lift has to be greater than weight. You’d think your weight would always be the same, but it isn’t. When you do aerobatics or go into a dive—like a kite that’s plunging into the sand at the beach—there’s an increase in gravity, and that makes you weigh more. If you want your heavy kite to stay in the air, you have to increase the lift, as well. Maybe by waiting for a stronger wind. Maybe by finding a windier place to fly your kite. Maddie brought lift back into my life by forcing me outside. So did Bob, who introduced me to the editors of this magazine. So did Fernande, the chambermaid at the Paris Ritz, who gave me her daughter’s clothes and made me get dressed and brought me coffee every morning for three weeks.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Force
  • Weight
  • Balanced

• I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Literature
  • Photography

• Once a person reaches Consciousness III, there is no returning to a lower consciousness.

  

  Charles A. Reich
  • Persons
  • Consciousness

• Usually when festivals are really huge it's kind of weird. It's totally fun for me and my band to play in front of a crowd that doesn't necessarily know who we are, but festivals get pretty impersonal when they get super large.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Fun
  • Pretty
  • Band

• Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • System
  • Morality
  • Virtues

• I've got a whole lotta questions, and not so many answers.

  

  Sarah Lacy
  • Questions
  • Answers

• The mist after rain, uninterrupted rainfall on rooftops, pitter-patter intellect. The thoughts I leave behind like footsteps.

  

  Chris Campanioni
  • Thoughts
  • Leave
  • Mist

• Fliess concluded from his studies that the physiological seat of sexuality lay in the nose, and that there was a twenty-three-day cycle in male sexuality that bore some relation to astronomical movements.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Relation
  • Sexuality
  • Studies

• Unsuccessful people think about what they don’t want most of the time. They talk about problems, listen to news & gossip, & spend their time blaming circumstances, situations & others. Successful people think about what they want & how they will get it. They are intensely focused on their goals & the information needed to help obtain them. Which person are YOU?

  

  Darren Hardy
  • Thinking
  • Problem
  • Helping

• He had nothing against debauchery in the abstract, but he was particular about the details.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Details
  • Abstract

• I've got a mission to help people improve and massively change their lives and create breakthroughs, so I'm always looking for them and I'm the first guinea pig.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Helping
  • Firsts

• I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Scripts
  • Studios
  • Breakthrough

• A breakthrough occurs when you recognize, you are more energy than matter

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Energy
  • Breakthrough

• God will not speak to me and tell me to mow my lawn today.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • God
  • Today
  • Speak

• Sometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.

  

  Michael Schur
  • Decision
  • Sometimes
  • Commit

• All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Breakthrough