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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-kuhn/the-transition-between-competing-paradigms-cannot-be-made-a-step-at-a/)

[Thomas Kuhn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-kuhn/)

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## More by Thomas Kuhn

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-kuhn/the-question-i-hoped-to-answer-was-how-much-mechanics-aristotle-had/)

[Thomas Kuhn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-kuhn/)

> [Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-kuhn/far-from-being-magisterial-in-its-objectivity-science-was-conditioned/)

[Thomas Kuhn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-kuhn/)

> [No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-kuhn/no-part-of-the-aim-of-normal-science-is-to-call-forth-new-sorts-of/)

[Thomas Kuhn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-kuhn/)

> [History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-kuhn/history-if-viewed-as-a-repository-for-more-than-anecdote-or/)

[Thomas Kuhn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-kuhn/)

> [We see the world in terms of our theories.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-kuhn/we-see-the-world-in-terms-of-our-theories/)

[Thomas Kuhn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-kuhn/)

> [All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-kuhn/all-crises-begin-with-the-blurring-of-a-paradigm-and-the-consequent/)

[Thomas Kuhn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-kuhn/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-kuhn/as-in-political-revolutions-so-in-paradigm-choice-there-is-no/)

[Thomas Kuhn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-kuhn/)

> [Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-kuhn/each-paradigm-will-be-shown-to-satisfy-more-or-less-the-criteria-that/)

[Thomas Kuhn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-kuhn/)

> [It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-kuhn/it-is-i-think-particularly-in-periods-of-acknowledged-crisis-that/)

[Thomas Kuhn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-kuhn/)

> [Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-kuhn/almost-always-the-men-who-achieve-these-fundamental-inventions-of-a/)

[Thomas Kuhn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-kuhn/)

> [What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-kuhn/what-chemists-took-from-dalton-was-not-new-experimental-laws-but-a/)

[Thomas Kuhn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-kuhn/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-kuhn/what-a-man-sees-depends-both-upon-what-he-looks-at-and-also-upon-what/)

[Thomas Kuhn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-kuhn/)

> [Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-kuhn/individuals-who-break-through-by-inventing-a-new-paradigm-are-almost/)

[Thomas Kuhn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-kuhn/)

> [Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-kuhn/philosophers-of-science-have-repeatedly-demonstrated-that-more-than/)

[Thomas Kuhn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-kuhn/)

> [Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-kuhn/under-normal-conditions-the-research-scientist-is-not-an-innovator/)

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