Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes

The decision to reject one paradigm is always simultaneously the decision to accept another, and the judgment leading to that decision involves the comparison of both paradigms with nature and with each other.

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• The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I've gotten happier so it's a damn good thing.

  

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• A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do.

  

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• All men are my children. What I desire for my own children, and I desire their welfare and happiness both in this world and the next, that I desire for all men. You do not understand to what extent I desire this, and if some of you do understand, you do not understand the full extent of my desire.

  

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• Wedded love is founded on esteem.

  

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• Is there an option for a sales tax increase for roads and schools? Yes. Is it an option the commissioners are exploring? No.

  

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• Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

  

  Eve Ensler
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• Any film, whether it worked at the box office or not, I'll have my favourite moments from it.

  

  Ram Gopal Varma
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• The ultimate goal of the whole policy of peaceful co-existence was to make progress on the basic goal laid down by Lenin of a world largely composed of socialist, communist states, in which the Soviet Union would be the prime mover.

  

  Paul Nitze
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• I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.

  

  Willa Cather
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• The State should have made sure the money given to the NGOs was used according to a global plan for Haiti; not doing whatever they want. They should be supervised and have to report and make sure the money is being used properly. They are here, but we are seeing no results.

  

  Michel Martelly
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• Oddly enough, I don't find myself concerned with 'impossible.' It's an enormous relief to know that I'm not having delusions. Nothing real, impossible or not, could be as frightening as that.

  

  Elaine Cunningham
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• All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.

  

  George Gilder
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• Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.

  

  Deborah Kampmeier
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• The decision to reject one paradigm is always simultaneously the decision to accept another, and the judgment leading to that decision involves the comparison of both paradigms with nature and with each other.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
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