What Thomas Kuhn thinks about innovation
Philosopher and historian of science (1922 to 1996) whose The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) argued that science moves through paradigms and revolutions, and made "paradigm shift" a household phrase.
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1 dated position, c. 1962, in their own words. Our reading of what Thomas Kuhn has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsAlmost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.
↗The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (second edition, enlarged, University of Chicago Press, 1970)archive.org All 17 from this book