Thomas Kuhn Quotes
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Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be…
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Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not…
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Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of a scientific community…
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'Normal science' means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a time as supplying…
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History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we…
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To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field…
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What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of…
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Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.
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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 can…
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The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists…
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The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a…
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Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced that we must…
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Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.
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Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they…
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All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case that…
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The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.
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Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those…
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Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.
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To reject one paradigm without simultaneously substituting another is to reject science itself.
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It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of…
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