"Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition."

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Source : Thomas S. Kuhn (2011). “The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change”, p.234, University of Chicago Press

Thomas Kuhn

#Believe Quotes #Research Quotes #Normal Quotes

“But we should not lose sight of how far we are coming and what a big hole we were left by George W. Bush.”
“An eldery fallen angel travelling incognito.”
“I just feel, in life, I'm searching for something I can rely on, something that's constant and something that's going to guide me through. And I felt that the Northern Star is a very beautiful image of that.”
“Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as meaningless violence. Every violent act had a meaning for the person who committed it. Only when you dared accept this truth could you hope to turn society in another direction.”

Source : FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Jul 29, 2011
“Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.”
“Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.”
“My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.”
“I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.”

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