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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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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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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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace the simple fact that we are dependent on and accountable to one another.
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I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.
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Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.
