Thomas S. Kuhn
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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To reject one paradigm without substituting another is to reject science itself.
Paradigms shift when the evidence can no longer be ignored.
The history of science is not the history of a steady progression toward the truth.
The process of scientific development is not linear but rather cyclical.
The man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
The transition from one paradigm to another is not a gradual process.
Scientific progress is a series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions.
The acceptance of a new paradigm requires a transformation of the scientific community's beliefs and practices.
What scientists actually do is much more complicated than any set of rules can capture.
Scientific revolutions are not made by the will of individual scientists.