ABSTRACT
In his classic work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn argued that “normal science” plods along based upon principles on which there is general agreement in a particular discipline or field of science (1970). Change occurs by revolution when those key principles are disconfirmed by research. The resulting crisis spawns new theories. They then go on to guide a new era of “puzzle solving” science that is propelled toward its next revolution when accepted doctrine will once again be rejected through research. For Kuhn, that is the path of progress in the sciences.
