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.

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.

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.

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings.

Success causes others to be jealous and hate.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.

What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord.

In a free society, it is hard for 'good' people to do 'good', but that is a small price to pay for making it hard for 'evil' people to do 'evil', especially since one man's good is another's evil

Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.

Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.