Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen. -Thomas Kuhn

 

Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen.


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This quote is just one of 8 total Thomas Kuhn quotes in our collection. Thomas Kuhn is known for saying 'Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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
201

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

Thomas Kuhn
195
Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses. -Thomas Kuhn
173

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
171

What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a reinterpretation of individual and stable data.

Thomas Kuhn
164
Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen. -Thomas Kuhn
120

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

Thomas Kuhn
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