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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,…
• 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…
• 'Normal science' means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a…
• History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science…
• To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science.…
• What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the…
• Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.
• As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this issue of…
• The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a…
• The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net…
• Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced…

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