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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…
• Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must,…
• Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied.…
• Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of…
• History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science…
• What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the…
• The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a…
• Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

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