Thomas Kuhn on Young Researchers and Paradigm Shifts
“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.”
Thomas Kuhn
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Quote by Allan Bloom on the Sacred and Authenticity
“These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.”
Allan Bloom
Quote by Allan Bloom on Conservatism
“I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook… I just do not happen to be that animal.”
Allan Bloom
Nikola Tesla Quote About Work and Discovery
“Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering.”
Nikola Tesla
Quote on Indifference and Responsibility by Wilhelm von Humboldt
“Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.”
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Scientific Progress – Quote by Thomas Kuhn
“Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not a relativist’s position, and it displays the sense in which I am a convinced believer in scientific progress.”
Thomas Kuhn
The De-Eroticization of the World – Quote by Allan Bloom
“The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment … seems to result from a combination of causes our democratic regime and its tendencies toward leveling and self-protection, a reductionist-materialist science that inevitably interprets eros as sex, and the atmosphere generated by “the death of God” and of the subordinate god, Eros.”
Allan Bloom
Quote by Allan Bloom on Self-Forgetting and Death
“Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the sense of always thinking about it and what it means for life and the things dear in life-which is characteristic of a serious life.”
Allan Bloom
Allan Bloom: Books Shape Our Being
“The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.”
Allan Bloom
Quote by Robert A. Heinlein on Poverty and Progress
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as “bad luck.”
Robert A. Heinlein