Thomas Kuhn's seminal work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions argues that the development of science occurs through paradigm shifts rather than steady accumulation of new knowledge. He asserts that scientists work within a dominant paradigm until significant anomalies emerge that cannot be solved within that framework, leading to a scientific revolution in which a new paradigm emerges and replaces the old one. This new paradigm then becomes the dominant way of practicing science until it too is challenged by new anomalies.
