Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes

Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not a relativist's position, and it displays the sense in which I am a convinced believer in scientific progress.

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• Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

  

  C. K. Williams
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• My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
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• I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.

  

  Gary Oldman
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• Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.

  

  Zubin Mehta
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• I'm not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I'm just walking on set, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I scream and jump and freak out.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
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• For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

  

  P. T. Barnum
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• I think the rest of the world has a very wide, very slow kick. It's very simple, breaststroke. People think it's highly technical. But the more narrow, more effective and quicker you can execute it, the faster you are going to go. There's less drag, basically.

  

  Adam Peaty
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• I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • World
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• During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
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• There is no way of being almost funny or mildly funny or fairly funny or tolerably funny. You are either funny or not funny and there is nothing in between. And usually it is the writer who thinks he is funny and the reader who thinks he isn't.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere.

  

  Jacques Monod
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• People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

  

  James Daly
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• Diane Keaton was a big role model for me.

  

  Andie MacDowell
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• I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
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• I was born Gaynor Hopkins, one of seven children. My mum, Elsie, and dad, Glyndwr, always said they had seven children, although my sister Paulene was stillborn.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
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• But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood.

  

  Bernice Weissbourd
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

  

  John Donne

• Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
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• I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.

  

  Charles Richet
  • Science
  • Quality
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• Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not a relativist's position, and it displays the sense in which I am a convinced believer in scientific progress.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
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  • Science
  • Environment