Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes
Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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I had never heard much about Nashville before coming out here, and that's why it's so surprising, because I'm the biggest enthusiast on the city of Nashville now. I'm looking for a place out here to live.
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I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
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We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.
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The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.
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Europe has the technology, the strategic and economic might to defend itself.
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Those who derive satisfaction by perpetuating pain in others will probably not stop their tirade against me. I do not expect them to. But, I pray in all humility, that they at least now stop irresponsibly maligning the 6 crore people of Gujarat.
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For the sword outwears its sheath,And the soul wears out the breast,And the heart must pause to breathe,And love itself have rest.
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I'm a Republican, by the way.
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That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.
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Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.
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I find it a very, very powerful thing to be yourself and not to try and be something else and to use that as your biggest shield and your biggest attack in the world - to just be you.
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If the wealthy get wealthier, no one has to become one penny poorer.
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Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.
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I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
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The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.
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I seem to be able to disassociate my insecurities. I know a lot of actors - some of the best actors in the world - can't bear to watch themselves and I have to say I can't relate to that.
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Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world.
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Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.
