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All revolutionary advances in science may consist less of sudden and dramatic revelations than a series of transformations, of which the revolutionary significance may…

— I. Bernard Cohen

“The scientific revolution was, in many ways, a by-product of mysticism and magic. In fact, once the tangled origins of modern science are unravelled,…

— John N. Gray

The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.

— George Smoot

Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.

— Michio Kaku

We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive,…

— Anonymous

It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere…

— Herbert Butterfield

Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced that we…

— Thomas Kuhn

Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that…

— Rene Thom

Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.

— Rosa Luxemburg

“Scientific revolutions tend to emerge not from a sudden discovery but by asking better questions”

— Lisa Feldman Barrett

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.

— Bill Ayers

Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious"…

— Paul Feyerabend