Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.
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The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
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Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.
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