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"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."
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"Times have changed in research and if you are not using Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia, Google, and the like, you will be left in the dark."

"The biologically harmful effects of man-made environmental radiation was a jigsaw of existing information that needed to be assembled by a group of independent researchers that had a broad range of knowledge and were free of corrupt corporate government influence."

"But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story."

"The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

"In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research."

"When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid."

"But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it."
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"Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."
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