Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.

Kuhn 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.

All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.

The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.