“We may, to be more precise, have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer to the truth”

Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), XIII. Progress Through Revolutions, p. 170

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American historian, physicist and philosopher 1922–1996

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