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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They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
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In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.
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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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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do theoretical physics because I like the big questions, but really I know now that that's not quite me. What's me is to do it in novels.
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All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.
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Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellow men.
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Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.
