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.

Thomas Kuhn

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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.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Painting

• I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Successful
  • Problems
  • Lucky

• We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

  

  Daniel Drew
  • Want
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Obsessed
  • General
  • Sneakers

• I had a very modest upbringing.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Very
  • Had
  • Upbringing

• The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Mind
  • Perception
  • Act

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• I am an artist who works with Lego.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Artist
  • Works
  • Lego

• 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.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Live
  • Why
  • City

• You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • True
  • End
  • Honor

• 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.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Music
  • Know
  • Artist

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Mind
  • Real

• The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Me
  • Big

• Europe has the technology, the strategic and economic might to defend itself.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Technology
  • Economic
  • Europe

• 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.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Stop
  • Pain

• If we do not solve our civilizational crisis - a disintegrating culture, dying populations, and invasions unresisted - the children born in 2006 will witness in their lifetimes the death of the West. In our hearts we know what must be done. We must stop the invasion. But do our leaders have the vision and will to do it?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Children
  • Done
  • Death

• 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.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Rest

• I'm a Republican, by the way.

  

  Charles Evers

• The Meatbats are a throwback band.

  

  Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Band

• Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

  

  George Eliot
  • Long
  • Silence
  • I Love You

• I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.'

  

  John Landis
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I feel a kind of intellectual regret, not an emotional regret, at having left my parents and that world behind. But it's not a great weight on my soul. In a way I wish it were. To leave one’s background without guilt is an indication of shallowness of character, I suspect.

  

  John Banville
  • World
  • Great
  • Character

• How many people can you claim truly care about you? I mean, not just the people in your life who are fun to hang out with, not just the people who you love and trust. But people who feel good when you are happy and successful, feel bad when you are hurt or going through a hard time, people who would walk away from their lives for a little while to help you with yours?

  

  Lisa Unger
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• 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.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • World
  • Community
  • Wisdom