In science, as in the playing card experiment, novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation. (Thomas Samuel Kuhn)

In science, as in the playing card experiment, novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

Thomas Samuel Kuhn

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