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Quotes by "Thomas Kuhn"

La verdad surge más fácilmente del error que de la confusión
— Thomas Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Tags: science
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
Tags: understand, way, time, nature
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
Tags: just, he, tradition, research
Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.
— Thomas Kuhn
Tags: who, like, new, man
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
Tags: analysis, i-think, crisis, think
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