Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.

The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.

All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking.

What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.

We see the world in terms of our theories.

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

Probably, the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new paradigm is that they can solve the problems that led the old one to a crisis.

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.

The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other. -Kheldar

We're all better off...when we're all better off.

Fate's such a shrewish thing.

I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies

How can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered?

Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds [when they meet me].

Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.

I'm merely teaching you to be someone of pride and to be a good leader and that's the message I want you to take away from my music.

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.