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.

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.

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.

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

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

A person is either a Christian or not; there is no in between state

This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. And they say Obama's not black enough!

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

When a man and a woman give themselves to each other in an act of marital love, they can know the love of Christ as no one else can know it.

It's inspiring, I think, for women out there to see I'm a regular person. I am the every woman who's struggled with my weight.

it goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself.

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.

I think there's a large segment of the mainland population that does not really understand the number of territories that are part of the United States.

…was designed to protect his heart, to bind me and bribe me to stay with him no matter what. He was giving everything he had.