Inspirational Quote by Thomas Kuhn

“Once a first paradigm through which to view nature has been found, there is no such thing as research in the absence of any…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

The decision to reject one paradigm is always simultaneously the decision to accept another, and the judgment leading to that decision involves the comparison…

— Thomas Kuhn

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

— Naguib Mahfouz

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

— Thomas Kuhn

“Science does not deal in all possible laboratory manipulations. Instead, it selects those relevant to the juxtaposition of a paradigm with the immediate experience…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should.…

— Sigmund Freud

While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of scientific knowledge,…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

Science today is locked into paradigms. Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything published by…

— Fred Hoyle

The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they get something…

— Vannevar Bush

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

— Max Planck

But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.

— Claude Bernard

Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have…

— Robert Pollack