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“Max Planck, surveying his own career in his Scientific Autobiography, sadly remarked that “a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
“To reject one paradigm without simultaneously substituting another is to reject science itself.”
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
“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
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