Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes
Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced that we must learn to make sense of statements that at least resemble these. What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a re-interpretation of individual and stable data. In the first place, the data are not unequivocally stable.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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It's going to be so obvious when something isn't well made for VR. People are going to use the best VR content. That's the stuff that's going to get shown to people. That's the stuff that's going to get demoed. That's most of what people are going to buy.
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I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.
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Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.
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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
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Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.
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Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.
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'Let him talk as he will!' scoffed Zamp. 'His motives are not at all obscure.'
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Spot the falsehood of history and find out the truth.
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Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.
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I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.
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I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.
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Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.
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I'm very appreciative and humbled by the success of 'Prison Break.'
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You need to take your gut feeling as an important data point, but then you have to consciously and deliberately evaluate it, to see if it makes sense in this context.
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Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced that we must learn to make sense of statements that at least resemble these. What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a re-interpretation of individual and stable data. In the first place, the data are not unequivocally stable.
