A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve EVERYTHING EXCEPT his own REASON for conserving ANYTHING.
Read MoreKuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in TERMS of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that CHANGED our way of LOOKING at the world.
Read MoreI'm not a POLITICALLY radical PERSON. In fact, I'm much more INTERESTED in being radical aesthetically.
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