Thomas S. Kuhn

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    “As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice—there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not only the impact of nature and of logic, but also the techniques of persuasive argumentation effective within the quite special groups that constitute the community of scientists.”
    —Thomas S. Kuhn (b. 1922)

    “I fellowed sleep who kissed me in the brain,
    Let fall the tear of time; the sleeper’s eye,
    Shifting to light, turned on me like a moon.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “In a sense that I am unable to explicate further, the proponents of competing paradigms practice their trades in different worlds.”
    —Thomas S. Kuhn (1922)