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In science, as in the playing card experiment, novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

— Thomas Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)

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Men whose research is based on shared paradigms are committed to the same rules and standards for scientific practice.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)

Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.

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By now it may be clear that the position I'm developing is a sort of post-Darwinian Kantianism.

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Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers.

Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have either been very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.

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