Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Kuhn, Thomas S. (1996-12-15), The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University Of Chicago Press, Retrieved on 2012-06-08Source Material [books.google.com]
Memes
08 JUN 2012
Scientific Revolutions Don't Change Reality
The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists adopt new instruments and look in new places. even more important, during revolutions, scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments in places they have looked before. It is rather as if the professional community had been suddenly transported to another planet where familiar objects are seen in a different light an... 1 
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notesBut the recast our perceptions and make us aware of new aspects of reality.
08 JUN 2012
The Problem with Paradigms
The success of the paradigm... is at the start largely a promise of success ... Normal science consists in the actualization of that promise... Mopping up operations are what engage most scientists throughout their careers. They constitute what I am here calling normal science... That enterprise seems an attempt to force nature into the preformed and relatively inflexible box that the paradigm supplies. No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those... 1 notes
notesIs that scientists tend to try and keep nature in the box, ignoring phenomena that fall outside the paradigm.
