• Thomas Kuhn
    Who
  • July 29, 2020
    When
    Read, recorded or researched
Summary
Written in 1962 by a ‘student’ of scientific history and philosophy, this book has become one of the most cited pieces of research ever. It brought the term “paradigm shift” into common use and unleashed a radical, new explanation for how scientific discoveries are made. Progress isn’t cumulative, brick by brick, it follows a cycle of normality, anomaly, crisis, paradigm shift, back to normality.

The Best Points

From
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
On

Connections:

No items found.

I first came across this book when I read the most cited research papers ever written. This is the one-page summary I wrote at the time. You can find others here.

Best line

Discovery commences with the awareness of anomaly, i.e., with the recognition that nature has somehow violated the paradigm-induced expectations that govern normal science. It then continues with a more or less extended exploration of the area of anomaly. And it closes only when the paradigm theory has been adjusted so that the anomalous has become the expected.