The Nature of Scientific Progress as described in T.H. Kuhn's model of paradigms and revolutions, and Larry Laudan's model of research traditions

Physicist and Nobel laureate W.L. Bragg once compared science to a coral reef, pointing out how the living organisms at the surface produce the growth of the reef on top of tens of hundreds of feet of skeletons of organisms that have long since died. The life of the reef is only at its surface; the life of science is only at its frontier. The main idea of this analogy is that present science …showed first 75 words of 2114 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2114 total…arned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have." Bibliography 1. Goldstein, Martin. How We Know. 1919. New York: Plenum Press. 1980. 2. Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1970 3. Laudan, Larry. Progress and its Problems. California: University of California Press. 1977 4. Shermer, Michael. Why People Believe Weird Things. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company. 1997.