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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
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 Image
Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
To reject one paradigm without simultaneously substituting another is to reject science itself. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
'Normal science' means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation. — 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
To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science.… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must,… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking. — 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
Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. — 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
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