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The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.

If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.

Now in the 21st century, the boundaries separating chemistry, physics, and medicine have become blurred, and as happened during the Renaissance, scientists are following their curiosities even when they run beyond the formal limits of their training.

A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.

If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.

Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying to get people to see that the world can be represented in an alternative way and that it's right.