All Thomas Kuhn Quotes
- All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs†old ways of thinking. All
- Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses. Embrace
- The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what he… Accordingly
- Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a single man and… Assimilation
- The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Change
- Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision. Accustomed
- The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative… Allies
- We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer… Been
- Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose… Achieve
- Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular… Alone