Kuhn's views on the history of scientific paradigms emphasize how a paradigm in its normal state rejects what is abnormal and how paradigms are mutually exclusive. The writer, on the other hand, emphasizes the process of understanding the "normal" from the "abnormal." When facing the seduction of the abnormal, don't fear what is messy.
孔恩的典範科學史觀強調，常態典範對異象的排斥以及典範間的不可共量性，作者卻重視科學經常是由「異常」瞭解「正常」的過程，面對異象的挑逗，勿患「科學潔癖」，要好奇而非排斥。