Joy needs no object; it is our own nature.
Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.
The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.
All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking.
The transition between competing paradigms cannot be made a step at a time, forced by logic and neutral experience. Like the gestalt switch, it must occur all at once (though not necessarily in an instant) or not at all.
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.
Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and conceive another set that can replace them.
I think from a moral issue, CEOs should not be making - whether it's 270 or 300 times more than their workers are making.
The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.
You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.
I'll be gray by the time I'm 30, but I like my hair. It looks shiny. I like the way it looks when those highlights are picked up on camera.