“Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.15 And perhaps that point need not have been made explicit, for obviously these are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and to conceive another set that can replace them.”
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]”
― Nuclear Physics
[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]”
― Nuclear Physics
“To reject one paradigm without simultaneously substituting another is to reject science itself.”
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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