Classification Quote by Clayton Christensen

The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and…

— Fritjof Capra

Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few…

— Thomas Kuhn

The idea is to be unrestrained by categories.

— Kurt Elling

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

We'll only use as much category theory as is necessary. Famous last words...

— Roman Abramovich

To reject one paradigm without simultaneously substituting another is to reject science itself.

— Thomas Kuhn

Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.

— Milton Friedman

The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can…

— John Stuart Mill

A paradigm is a powerful theoretical and methodological framework which defines the working lives of thousands of intelligent and disciplined minds. And paradigms do…

— John Naughton

Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the facts in…

— Herbert Marcuse

We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of…

— E. H. Moore

Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.

— Jawaharlal Nehru