Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes
Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.
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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
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Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.
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Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage.
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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
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How is Maggie Rowe compensating for her decision to not have a child? Is what she is doing instead enough to justify that decision? What is she doing instead, and why can't she be better at it? What's keeping her from getting a better overall existence score in comparison to an arbitrary sampling of other human beings?
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Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, either/or, or something in between.
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Everyone, archetypally, is a parent to future generations.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.
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More matter with less art.
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My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.
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Live at your highest potential-moment to moment to moment... When do we feel most alive? When we're being ourselves-our highest selves.
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There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.
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I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.
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The past is getting clearer and clearer
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Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.
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The basic issue about being too close is being closer than you're comfortable with. For some people, even slightly close is too much and for other people being enormously close is great.
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This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.
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Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.
