As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this issue of… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice--there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced… — 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 Image
Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
