"Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not a relativist's position, and it displays the sense in which I am a convinced believer in scientific progress."

-- Thomas Kuhn

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“Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.”

Source : Feisal Abdul Rauf (2012). “Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
“I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.”
“You don't need papers to vote...”
“Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?”
“Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on the assumption that they'll do as they're told, and they do.”

Source : Lynne Reid Banks (1995). “The Secret of the Indian”
“I find it ironic that now water is more expensive than music. On the one hand, record companies can't go crying when they've gouged consumers for decades, charging exorbitant prices for CDs that cost 29 cents to make. On the other hand, when music is free, musicians starve.”
“Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.”

Source : George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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