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Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those…

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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.…
What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the…
Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith…
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.…

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