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 Samuel Kuhn
Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision.
– Thomas Samuel Kuhn
Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.
– Thomas Samuel Kuhn
Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.
– Thomas Samuel Kuhn
What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a reinterpretation of individual and stable data.