Author: 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.

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

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

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

- Thomas Kuhn

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.

- Thomas Kuhn

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