Argumentation Quote by Thomas Kuhn

“The question I hoped to answer,was how much mechanics Aristotle had known, how much he had left for people such as Galileo and Newton…

— Thomas Kuhn

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

— Thomas Kuhn

No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box…

— Thomas Kuhn

History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which…

— Thomas Kuhn

We see the world in terms of our theories.

— Thomas Kuhn

All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case…

— Thomas Kuhn

As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this issue of paradigm choice…

— Thomas Kuhn

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

It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles…

— Thomas Kuhn

Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field…

— Thomas Kuhn

What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system…

— Thomas Kuhn

What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.

— Thomas Kuhn