Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes
Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.
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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
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In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.
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It's nice to work with your own alma mater.
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I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.
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If we hold on together I know our dreams will never die Dreams see us through to forever Where clouds roll by For you and I
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Some people eat the tuna, some people roll it up into a ball. Also, the sort of disgusting texture and smell, I think, adds something to the experience.
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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
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Baby it's you. You're the one I love. You're the one I need. You're the only one I see.
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A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.
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Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.
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Why should I seek for love or study it? It is of God and passes human wit; I study hatred with great diligence, For that's a passion in my own control, A sort of besom that can clear the soul Of everything that is not mind or sense.
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Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'
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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
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Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.
