Activity Quote by Thomas Kuhn

“Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows…

— Thomas S. 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…

— Thomas Kuhn

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

— Thomas Kuhn

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may…

— Joseph Rotblat

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

Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against the ancient,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Whatever basic science resolves, at some stage it is of use to society. The problem is we do not know when or where.

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest…

— Ralph Linton

Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society can science…

— Talcott Parsons

It is understandable that people want to know how it affects them. But as a scientist, I would hope society would be equally interested…

— Donna Strickland