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“Interviewers want to hear a reasonable story about the past, present, and future.” — Meg Jay Copy Share Image
“There was a skill to organizing your life into neatly bundled anecdotes, and he lacked it.” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“Did he really want to know? That at any given moment I see everyday life as only _this big_, the space between my finger… — Alisa Smith Copy Share Image
“Your life today is, for the most part, a manifestation of the stories you told yourself in the past.” — Christopher Babson Copy Share Image
“When I examined my own life, I realized that I had been standing at the foot of my mother's casket for 35 years, grieving… — Nathaniel J. Williams Copy Share Image
“I am, as it were, the created creating—a paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human journey, and… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose has it… — Elizabeth Jane Howard Copy Share Image
“Mom became even more concerned about my values when my editor offered me a job writing a weekly column about what he called the… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“A sweeping vista of Northern sky opens up between the warehouses and hangs motionless above the cobbled streets. It’s a world of unrequited love… — Neil Schiller Copy Share Image
“[I]nternalized experiences of selfhood are linked to autobiographical narratives, which are linked to biographies, legal testimonies, and medical case histories, which are linked to… — Anthony Kenny Copy Share Image
“He felt some visceral connection between what was happening on the screen and his own dreams and subconscious, and with his ongoing efforts to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Unable either to practice science without the Principia or to make that work conform to the corpuscular standards of the seventeenth century, scientists gradually… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
“Once a first paradigm through which to view nature has been found, there is no such thing as research in the absence of any… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
“Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong.” — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
“Max Planck, surveying his own career in his Scientific Autobiography, sadly remarked that “a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
“Perhaps science does not develop by the accumulation of individual discoveries and inventions” — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
“Either as a metaphor or because it reflects the nature of the mind, that psychological experiment provides a wonderfully simple and cogent schema for… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
“Newton's three laws of motion are less a product of novel experiments than of the attempt to reinterpret well-known observations in terms of motions… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
“Gravity, interpreted as an innate attraction between every pair of particles of matter, was an occult quality in the same sense as the scholastics'… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
“Observation and experience can and must drastically restrict the range of admissible scientific belief, else there would be no science. But they cannot alone… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
“We noted in Section II that an increasing reliance on textbooks or their equivalent was an invariable concomitant of the emergence of a first… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
“And even when the apparatus exists, novelty ordinarily emerges only for the man who, knowing with precision what he should expect, is able to… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
“The competition between paradigms is not the sort of battle that can be resolved by proofs.” — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
