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

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.

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.

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

Where there is competition, one cannot attain (true) 'Knowledge'.

He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.

When we start a new task, or confront an unpleasant chore, we should take a moment to ask ourselves "why.

We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites.

The worse the author, the more he is known.

I think music changes and it evolves.

The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It's almost like there needs to be two genres, modern country and... country?

I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.

White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.

The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.