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.
Interpretation
Innovators often come from outside established norms, bringing fresh perspectives.
This quote by Thomas Kuhn highlights that groundbreaking inventions and shifts in understanding typically arise from individuals who are either young or relatively inexperienced in their respective fields. Such newcomers bring novel ideas that challenge existing paradigms, suggesting that innovation is often driven by a willingness to think differently rather than by extensive experience.
In practice
A tech conference where speakers discuss how fresh talent is reshaping the industry.
To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field has made the transition, critical discourse recurs only at moments of crisis when the bases of the field are again in jeopardy. Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers.
All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case that will most concern us here, a crisis may end with the emergence of a new candidate for paradigm and with the ensuing battle over its acceptance.
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.
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language.
Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.
Those who worship God only, can get rid of anxiety of mind; others cannot.
Youβve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning youβve projected
This is the first lesson ye should learn: There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us. This is a universal law, and until one begins to make application of same, one may not go very far in spiritual or soul development.
A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.
Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library class, they suddenly experience what in French is called esprit de l'escalier or wit of the staircase: a great thought which unfortunately is an afterthought, like a clever reply that would have stunned all the other dinner guests - if only you had thought of it before walking down the stairs after the party is over.
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
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