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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Before you can have great employees you have to put them in a position to create their own future.
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We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.
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Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the “chance-of-the-gaps fallacy.” Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance.
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It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
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There are many who are hypocrites although they think they are not, and there are many who are afraid of being hypocrites although they certainly are not. Which is the one and which is the other God knows, and none but He.
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Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.
