Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers. - Thomas Kuhn

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Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers.

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About Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Samuel Kuhn (July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American physicist, historian, and philosopher of science and who wrote extensively on the history of science and developed several important notions in the philosophy of science.

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Native Name: Thomas Samuel Kuhn
Alternative Names: Thomas S. Kuhn
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We must now ask how changes of this sort can come about, considering first discoveries, or novelties of fact, and then inventions, or novelties of theory. That distinction between discovery and invention or between fact and theory will, however, immediately prove to be exceedingly artificial.

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