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.


Thomas Kuhn

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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be sa...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Euro...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their be...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should hav...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by who...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
THOMAS GRAY
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wr...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
THOMAS JEFFERSON