History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed.

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.

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.

There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible.

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

The fact is that I made a stand a number of times in my career, and I did it because I knew I was right.

I don't think too much about awards.

He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

People need things. I don't live a monk's existence, I'm a consumer, but I try to do it to the level that doesn't feel like there's an overabundance of something.

I love looking after animals. I find it very enjoyable.

I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off.

Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.

It's how you prioritize in life.