"Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones……" — Thomas Kuhn

"Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not a relativist's position, and it displays the sense in which I am a convinced believer in scientific progress."

— Thomas Kuhn

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