Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

Thomas Kuhn

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• We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.

  

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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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• I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person.

  

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• The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

  

  William Hazlitt
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• Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

  

  William Hazlitt
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• You're always trying to find new stuff and new inspiration. If you don't really push and you don't try something that feels exciting, then it's not worth doing.

  

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• My forte is playing along and singing along to music I love. I mean, who knows, maybe I could develop that knack or develop that ability to write, and I do actually co-write with people and friends, which is fun, too, because then I don't have to worry about writing lyrics, because for me writing lyrics is impossible.

  

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• Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Prejudice
  • Scientist
  • Objectivity