“Either as a metaphor or because it reflects the nature of the mind, that psychological experiment provides a wonderfully simple and cogent schema for the process of scientific discovery. In science, as in the playing card experiment, novelty emerges only… — Thomas S. Kuhn 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 determine a particular body of such belief. An apparently arbitrary element, compounded of personal and historical accident, is always a formative ingredient of the beliefs espoused by a given scientific community at a given time” — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share
“We noted in Section II that an increasing reliance on textbooks or their equivalent was an invariable concomitant of the emergence of a first paradigm in any field of science. The concluding section of this essay will argue that the domination of a mature science by such texts significantly differentiates its developmental pattern from that of other fields. For the… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share
“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
