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 KuhnWhat a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.
Thomas KuhnResearch under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.
Thomas KuhnIn science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.
Thomas KuhnThe 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 KuhnThe 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