Thomas Kuhn Quotes

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

I think perception is important.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

I think the more I learn, the more I see, and what you see makes your eyes and talent evolve.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

What transforms this world is - knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.

I've always been able to see you," I say. "It's a rather lovely view.

What I learned in school, what I learned in the educational part of my life. Trying to acquire a kind of a bird's eye view. You drive hard and see everything. And that's called education because now you can see everything.

What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both come to the same conclusions but they don't have quite the same point of view.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

He who walks may see and understand. You can study all America from one hilltop, if your eyes are open and your mind is willing to reach. But first you must walk to that hill.

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.