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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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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Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
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I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.
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I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.
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Have a relentless commitment to consistency of message. It might be the 15th time you’ve given the speech, but some people may never have heard it. Or, some people may have heard it four times but it’s the first time they’ve internalized it.
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What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. And yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder.
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Selena Gomez. She’s a sweetheart, I met her a couple of times.
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Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.
