“All Significant Breakthroughs” – Thomas Kuhn

„All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking.“

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Thomas Kuhn was an American physicist, philosopher of science, and historian of science.

The quote emphasizes that major scientific advances often emerge by moving beyond established ways of thinking.


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Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1922–1996) was one of the influential philosophers of science of the 20th century. In his major work, “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” he described the development of science as a sequence of periods of normal science interrupted by scientific revolutions. He is particularly associated with the concept of the paradigm shift and with the idea that different paradigms may be incommensurable.

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"Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and conceive another set that can replace them." Thomas Kuhn
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