MS - Thomas Kuhn

This essay definitely made me look at all of my old science textbooks differently. I had never really questioned the information that science textbooks gave me; I always accepted the fact that so-and-so discovered whatever at this time and place. I'm a bit surprised that I had never been curious about those specific dates and places before. It makes sense after reading this essay that discovery doesn't just suddenly happen. There's not typically an "aha!" moment. It takes weeks, months, or years to fully understand what was "discovered." Whenever I hear or read something that claims that someone discovered some scientific idea or object I will think back to this essay and Kuhn's examples.