Stella McCartney on Animal-Free Luxury Fashion
“I think the moment that I’m very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people’s perception of how you can do luxury fashion.”
Stella McCartney
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Thomas Kuhn on New Paradigms and Scientific Change
“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.”
Thomas Kuhn
Thomas Kuhn on Science and Puzzle-Solving
“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
“Economics Dominates Politics” – Quote by Chris Hedges
“Economics dominates politics – and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.”
Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges on Journalism and Power
“No real journalist makes ? million a year… Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.”
Chris Hedges
“Beauty Is How You Feel Inside” – Quote by Sophia Loren
“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”
Sophia Loren
Quote by Robert A. Heinlein on Peace and Freedom
“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.”
Robert A. Heinlein
Quote by Karl Popper on Scientific Theories and Uncertainty
“No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain…. No scientific theory is sacrosanct.”
Karl Popper
Stella McCartney on Fashion Without Leather
“The really great thing about my shop is that there’s not one dead animal in it. … Manolo’s got a load of fabric shoes as well! We use plastic, fabric, rubber- anything but leather. I almost feel like I’ve been put here to show everyone that it’s unnecessary.”
Stella McCartney
Perception and Experience – Thomas Kuhn on Visual Observation
“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.”
Thomas Kuhn