“Few people who are not actually practitioners of a mature science realize how much mop-up work of this sort a paradigm leaves to be done or quite how fascinating such work can prove in the execution.”

— Thomas Kuhn, book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), III. The Nature of Normal Science, p. 24 (2012 ed.)

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American historian, physicist and philosopher 1922–1996

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“A mature science is governed by a single paradigm.”

Alan Chalmers book What Is This Thing Called Science?

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“We can start to clean up these terribly burdensome regulations. We can make the tax code much simpler, much flatter, so that it works for everyday people, so we’re incentivizing work. And I want to go down there and actually get things done”

Patrick Morrisey (1967) West Virginia politician

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