"To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field has made the transition, critical discourse recurs only at moments of crisis when the bases of the field are again in jeopardy. Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers."

-- Thomas Kuhn

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“Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”
“Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.”
“Our message today is one of hope. It is about potential waiting to be fulfilled: the surest way to meet the global challenges we face now and in the future is to make every mother and child count.”
“I think the biggest mistake anyone can make is trying to be the next someone, and try to mimic or copy someone who is already out there because you have to produce your own personality and your own sound, and go from there. That is something all great broadcasters have been able to do.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started using their mouths for other thingsâ€”like talkingâ€”everything got so complicated.”

Source : Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.499, Delacorte Press
“My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes”

Source : "He can see clearly now / Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins looks at success, love, creativity" by Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2003.
“I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.”
“People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.”

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