Thomas S. Kuhn

“Unable either to practice science without the Principia or to make that work conform to the corpuscular standards of the seventeenth century,…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“Once a first paradigm through which to view nature has been found, there is no such thing as research in the absence…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong.”

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“Max Planck, surveying his own career in his Scientific Autobiography, sadly remarked that “a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“Perhaps science does not develop by the accumulation of individual discoveries and inventions”

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“Either as a metaphor or because it reflects the nature of the mind, that psychological experiment provides a wonderfully simple and cogent…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“Newton's three laws of motion are less a product of novel experiments than of the attempt to reinterpret well-known observations in terms…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“Gravity, interpreted as an innate attraction between every pair of particles of matter, was an occult quality in the same sense as…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“Observation and experience can and must drastically restrict the range of admissible scientific belief, else there would be no science. But they…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“We noted in Section II that an increasing reliance on textbooks or their equivalent was an invariable concomitant of the emergence of…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“And even when the apparatus exists, novelty ordinarily emerges only for the man who, knowing with precision what he should expect, is…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“The competition between paradigms is not the sort of battle that can be resolved by proofs.”

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“If these out-of date beliefs are to be called myths, then myths can be produced by the same sorts of methods and…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“there are no other professional communities in which individual creative work is so exclusively addressed to and evaluated by other members of…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“Textbooks, however, being pedagogic vehicles for the perpetuation of normal science, have to be rewritten in whole or in part whenever the…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“Science does not deal in all possible laboratory manipulations. Instead, it selects those relevant to the juxtaposition of a paradigm with the…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“the process of learning a theory depends upon the study of applications, including practice problem-solving both with a pencil and paper and…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

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— Thomas S. Kuhn