The transition between competing paradigms cannot be made a step at a time, forced by logic and neutral experience. Like the gestalt switch, it must occur all at once (though not necessarily in an instant) or not at all. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
“The question I hoped to answer,was how much mechanics Aristotle had known, how much he had left for people such as Galileo and Newton… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share
Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share
No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share
History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share
All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share
As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this issue of paradigm choice… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share
Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share
It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share
Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share
What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share
Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share
Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share
