Thomas Kuhn Quotes on Knowledge
Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions changed how the development of the natural sciences is understood. This page collects quotes attributed to Thomas Kuhn on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Thomas Kuhn:
“Normal science means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements.”
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Attributed to Thomas Kuhn:
“Crises are the necessary preludes to the emergence of new theories.”
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Attributed to Thomas Kuhn:
“Two scientists working in different paradigms see different worlds.”
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Attributed to Thomas Kuhn:
“A paradigm is what the members of a scientific community share.”
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Attributed to Thomas Kuhn:
“Out of context, the new is unintelligible to the old.”