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Science Quotes by Thomas Kuhn
- 'Normal science' means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a time as supplying…
- History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we…
- To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field…
- The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists…
- The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a…
- 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…
- Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.
- To reject one paradigm without simultaneously substituting another is to reject science itself.
- The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
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- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
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- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov