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Top 25 Thomas Kuhn Quotes (2025 Update)

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.”

1. “The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking.”

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

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “We see the world in terms of our theories.”

3. “We see the world in terms of our theories.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.”

4. “Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.”

5. “Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.”

6. “What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.”

7. “The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.”

8. “Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box are often not seen at all. Nor do scientists normally aim to invent new theories, and they are often intolerant of those invented by others.”

9. “No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box are often not seen at all. Nor do scientists normally aim to invent new theories, and they are often intolerant of those invented by others.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.”

10. “Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature’s transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.”

11. “The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature’s transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers.”

12. “It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.”

13. “Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a single man and never overnight.”

14. “Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a single man and never overnight.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set of institutions in favor of another, and in the interim, society is not fully governed by institutions at all.”

15. “Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set of institutions in favor of another, and in the interim, society is not fully governed by institutions at all.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few of those dictated by its opponent.”

16. “Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few of those dictated by its opponent.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “Probably, the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new paradigm is that they can solve the problems that led the old one to a crisis...”

17. “Probably, the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new paradigm is that they can solve the problems that led the old one to a crisis...”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.”

18. “In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “To reject one paradigm without simultaneously substituting another is to reject science itself.”

19. “To reject one paradigm without simultaneously substituting another is to reject science itself.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed.”

20. “History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not a relativist’s position, and it displays the sense in which I am a convinced believer in scientific progress.”

21. “Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not a relativist’s position, and it displays the sense in which I am a convinced believer in scientific progress.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.”

22. “Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.”

23. “Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.”

24. “Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.”

— Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn Quote: “Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision.”

25. “Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision.”

— Thomas Kuhn

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