metascience 7
- A paradigm is what a scientific community shares, and the community is those who share it
- Science's history, read as more than anecdote, could transform our image of science
Thomas Kuhn
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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What Thomas Kuhn says most about
innovation 4
- The inventors of a new paradigm are almost always very young or new to the field
- Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they subvert its commitments
mental models 2
- What you see depends on what you look at and on what your experience has taught you to see
- An anomaly appears only against the background of a paradigm