Famous quotes containing the words standard and/or circular:
“As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choicethere is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not only the impact of nature and of logic, but also the techniques of persuasive argumentation effective within the quite special groups that constitute the community of scientists.”
—Thomas S. Kuhn (b. 1922)
“Oh Lolita, you are my girl, as Vee was Poes and Bea Dantes, and what little girl would not like to whirl in a circular skirt and scanties?”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
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