Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

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• It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.

  

  Zac Efron
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• Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
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• I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.

  

  Vikram Seth
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• There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • Men
  • War

• But now I know that there is no killing A thing like Love, for it laughs at Death. There is no hushing, there is no stilling That which is part of your life and breath. You may bury it deep, and leave behind you The land, the people that knew your slain; It will push the sods from its grave, and find you On wastes of water or desert plain.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • People
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• Three or four plays cause the momentum to shift. We turned it over and gave Baylor a cheap score.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Causes
  • Four
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• I'm very healthy. I'm into eating right, and there are just some things to me, when you talk about eating right, you shouldn't eat.

  

  Rozonda Thomas TLC
  • Healthy
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• There's so many different ways to get yourself out there, a lot more options than when we first came out.

  

  Rozonda Thomas TLC
  • Different
  • More
  • Ways

• Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Night
  • Inspiration
  • Homework

• To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Reason
  • Dictate
  • Command Of God

• Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Mind
  • Justice
  • Circumstances

• I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Sort
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• An artist should let his style evolve naturally, spontaneously.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Style
  • Artist
  • Evolve

• This patriotic revolution where people want to find their own identity are not racist but want to fight for the preservation of their own people. Their own country, their own values. Their own money. Their own borders. This is such a positive thing.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • People
  • Country
  • Fighting

• My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Human
  • For Him

• We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Embrace
  • Paradigm
  • Lenses