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Men Quotes by Thomas Kuhn
- 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…
- Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.
- 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…
- 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…
- Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision.
- 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…
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