Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm 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.

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.

Every time someone asks me who I want to work with, my answer is always the same: whoever wants to work with me that won't want to get their ego stroked.

I will always be here. We will walk the skies together forever.

The first question is something immediate -- and immediately, we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into the Sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??

I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.

Being an Arsenal fan, at the end of every season I say the same thing: we've got a good team, a young team, hopefully, we'll be in the running for the league title next season.

Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a terrible towel.

The government can indefinitely control both short-term and long-term interest rates.