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