Thomas Kuhn Quotes
Best Quotes by Thomas Kuhn
“All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking.”
“Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and conceive another set that can replace them.”
“The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.”
“We see the world in terms of our theories.”
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Quotes
“What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.”
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“It will be impossible to determine exactly who died of Covid and who didn't. If someone at a blessed age with shaky health gets the coronavirus and dies, does he die from the virus? Is the last straw more the cause than the first? We can thus artificially or meaninglessly increase the number of deaths.
And we should mention that the reverse also applies: there may also be many more deaths than are counted. In Italy, people who died outside the hospital were buried without a test. They are not included in the statistics.”
