Quote by Thomas Kuhn

"In the end, a paradigm is abandoned not because it is refuted but because something better is offered."

Thomas Kuhn
Philosopher Historian American 1922–1996

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"The transition between competing paradigms cannot be made a step at a time."
"Discovery commences with the awareness of anomaly."
"Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none."
"No natural history can be interpreted as anything but myth."

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