Quotes About Paradigm

In der Wissenschaft kommt es alle paar Jahre vor, daß etwas, das bis dahin als Fehler galt, plötzlich alle Anschauungen umkehrt oder daß ein unscheinbarer und verachteter Gedanke zum Herrscher über ein neues Gedankenreich wird.

Changing quadrants is often a change at the core of who you are—how you think and how you look at the world.

We have our opinion and we filter information into a paradigm that supports it.

All significant breakthroughs are break -"withs" old ways of thinking.

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.

Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.

A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.

Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical physics.

Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period

Twenty years ago many chemists would have defended the theory of bond arms as a satisfactory explanation because they had become accustomed to thinking of it as unique and as ultimate.

Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.

Every important idea in science sounds strange at first.

As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.