Quotes About Thomas Kuhn

The term paradigm shift was introduced by Thomas Kuhn in his highly influential landmark book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn shows how almost every significant breakthrough in the field of scientific endeavor is first a break with tradition, with old ways of thinking, with old paradigms.

The term paradigm shift was introduced by Thomas Kuhn in his highly influential landmark book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

They had a game they would play, sitting at a coffeehouse. They would ask: How far away is the nearest strange attractor? Was it that rattling automobile fender? That flag snapping erratically in a steady breeze? A fluttering leaf? You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it, Shaw said, echoing Thomas S. Kuhn.

In the field of animal behavior, behavioral ecology became "normal science," in the terminology of the philosopher of science, Thomas Kuhn.116

The story of the Copernican Revolution never has been and probably never will be better told than in Thomas Kuhn's The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought (New York: MJF Books, 1985)