What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a reinterpretation of individual and stable data.
What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a reinterpretation of individual and stable data.
Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.
Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers.
Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.
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