“Scientists work from models acquired through education and through subsequent exposure to the literature often without quite knowing or needing to know what characteristics have given these models the status of community paradigms”

Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), V. The Priority of Paradigms, p. 46

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American historian, physicist and philosopher 1922–1996

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