Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific commu…

- Thomas Kuhn

Every important idea in science sounds strange at first.

- Thomas Kuhn

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

- Thomas Kuhn

The transition between competing paradigms cannot be made a step at a time, forced by logic and neutral experience. Like the gestalt switch, it must …

- Thomas Kuhn

We see the world in terms of our theories.

- Thomas Kuhn

Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates …

- Thomas Kuhn

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 …

- Thomas Kuhn

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

- Thomas Kuhn

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

- Thomas Kuhn