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.


The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd edition (1970)

Thomas Kuhn Quotes

Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That...

Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That...

Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That...

Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That...