* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes.

*As you read this summary, you will discover that scientific progress consists less in understanding how nature works than in developing a theoretical framework accepted by the scientific community.

*You will also discover that : science needs a theoretical framework to advance; scientific revolutions are caused not by discoveries, but by crises within the scientific community; science regularly makes a clean sweep of the past and the mistakes it has made; scientific progress is not based on the search for truth, but on scientists' ideas of truth.

*The study of the history of science has completely changed the vision of Thomas Kuhn, PhD in physics. Science is often seen from a purely cognitive perspective: a set of discoveries about how nature works and how it is made possible to do so. However, history shows that many of yesterday's scientific discoveries have no value today. Is the aim of science to know how nature works, Thomas Kuhn asks, or only to interpret it according to current theories?

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