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Thomas S. Kuhn

“The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what he wants to achieve, and he designs his instruments and directs his thoughts accordingly. Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong. . . . There is no other effective way in which discoveries might be generated.”

Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
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