Tom Kuhn

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    “The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
    And proves by thumps upon your back
    How he esteems your merit,
    Is such a friend, that one had need
    Be very much his friend indeed
    To pardon or to bear it.”
    —William Cowper (1731–1800)

    “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)