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Thomas Kuhn Quotes

Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision Picture Quote #1

Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not a relativist’s position, and it displays the sense in which I am a convinced believer in scientific progress Picture Quote #1

Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data Picture Quote #1

As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this issue of paradigm choice can never be unequivocally settled by logic and experiment alone Picture Quote #1

We see the world in terms of our theories Picture Quote #1

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial Picture Quote #1

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Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change Picture Quote #1

To reject one paradigm without simultaneously substituting another is to reject science itself Picture Quote #1

The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask Picture Quote #1

The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a sequence of such revolutionary selections, separated by periods of normal research, is the wonderfully adapted set of instruments we call modern scientific knowledge Picture Quote #1

In a sense that I am unable to explicate further, the proponents of competing paradigms practice their trades in different worlds Picture Quote #1

Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen Picture Quote #1

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Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few of those dictated by its opponent Picture Quote #1

The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what he wants to achieve, and he designs his instruments and directs his thoughts accordingly. Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong... There is no other effective way in which discoveries might be generated Picture Quote #1

All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research... Or finally, the case that will most concern us here, a crisis may end with the emergence of a new candidate for paradigm and with the ensuing battle over its acceptance Picture Quote #1

Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. 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 conceive another set that can replace them Picture Quote #1

It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers Picture Quote #1

The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists adopt new instruments and look in new places. even more important, during revolutions, scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments in places they have looked before. It is rather as if the professional community had been suddenly transported to another planet where familiar objects are seen in a different light and are joined by unfamiliar ones as well Picture Quote #1

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History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed Picture Quote #1

Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not a relativist’s position, and it displays the sense in which I am a convinced believer in scientific progress Picture Quote #1

Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them Picture Quote #1

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The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature’s transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued Picture Quote #1

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses Picture Quote #1

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none Picture Quote #1

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Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not a relativist’s position, and it displays the sense in which I am a convinced believer in scientific progress. (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data. (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this issue of paradigm choice can never be unequivocally settled by logic and experiment alone (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) We see the world in terms of our theories (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) To reject one paradigm without simultaneously substituting another is to reject science itself (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a sequence of such revolutionary selections, separated by periods of normal research, is the wonderfully adapted set of instruments we call modern scientific knowledge (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) In a sense that I am unable to explicate further, the proponents of competing paradigms practice their trades in different worlds (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few of those dictated by its opponent (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what he wants to achieve, and he designs his instruments and directs his thoughts accordingly. Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong... There is no other effective way in which discoveries might be generated (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research... Or finally, the case that will most concern us here, a crisis may end with the emergence of a new candidate for paradigm and with the ensuing battle over its acceptance (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. 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 conceive another set that can replace them (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists adopt new instruments and look in new places. even more important, during revolutions, scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments in places they have looked before. It is rather as if the professional community had been suddenly transported to another planet where familiar objects are seen in a different light and are joined by unfamiliar ones as well (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not a relativist’s position, and it displays the sense in which I am a convinced believer in scientific progress (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) 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 (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) 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 (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature’s transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses (Thomas Kuhn Quotes) Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none (Thomas Kuhn Quotes)