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Every important idea in science sounds strange at first.


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The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.



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All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking.



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What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.



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We see the world in terms of our theories.



Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.



Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.



In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.



Probably, the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new paradigm is that they can solve the problems that led the old one to a crisis.

Probably, the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new paradigm is that they can solve the problems that led the old one to a crisis.



Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.



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.

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.





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