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.
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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!
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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.
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If you're gonna live, then live it up. If you're gonna give, then give it up. If you're gonna walk the Earth, then walk it proud. If you're gonna say the word, you got to say it loud.
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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.
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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.
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Three or four plays cause the momentum to shift. We turned it over and gave Baylor a cheap score.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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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.
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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.
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Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework.
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To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.
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The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
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Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.
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The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
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Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.
