“The transfer of allegiance from paradigm to paradigm is a conversion experience that cannot be forced.”— Thomas Kuhn
“The competition between paradigms is not the sort of battle that can be resolved by proofs.”— Thomas Kuhn
“The choice between competing paradigms is a choice between incompatible modes of community life.”— Thomas Kuhn
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”— Freeman Dyson
“We are living in a time of a new Copernican revolution—a revolution in our understanding of the origin and nature of the universe as a whole.”— Heinz R. Pagels