“Newton's three laws of motion are less a product of novel experiments than of the attempt to reinterpret well-known observations in terms of motions and interactions of primary neutral corpuscles”
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
“The lie is the future, one may venture to say [...]. To tell the truth is, on the contrary, to say what is or what will have been and it would instead prefer the past.”
― Without Alibi
― Without Alibi
“Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.”
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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