The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

One suspects that something like a paradigm is prerequisite to perception itself. What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.

on HN, 2022

That (wrt Kuhn) has made the difference between thinking of paradigms as "big-picture stuff that changes every so often in a manner more complicated than we normally consider", to seeing the tendrils everywhere, all the time, in subtle and nuanced ways propagating through all culture.

on HN, 2022

Before, I'd thought of science as absolute truths about the universe which we could only discover, linearly. Afterwards, I learned that science is as much a political process as any other major institution, that scientists are not immune to human psychological biases, that the process of getting scientific theories accepted is just as subject to selection bias ("the old generation dying out") as the things it studies, and that science is effective to the extent that it acknowledges these biases in a way that faith does not.

on HN, 2019