Nice piece. It reminds me of Kuhn's point about how we notice and celebrate the occasional revolutions in scientific thinking but too often fail to appreciate what he called "normal science"-- the incremental, "mopping up" work without which the revolutions would not occur.
Nice piece. It reminds me of Kuhn's point about how we notice and celebrate the occasional revolutions in scientific thinking but too often fail to appreciate what he called "normal science"-- the incremental, "mopping up" work without which the revolutions would not occur.