The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
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The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.
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Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.
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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.
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