In the decade before our Harvard years philosopher Thomas Kuhn published The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, holding that science shifts abruptly from time to time as novel ideas and radically innovative paradigms force shifts in thinking. This idea had caught our fancy as we searched for paradigms that posited human possibilities undreamt of in our psychology. Kuhn’s ideas, hotly discussed in the scientific world, spurred us on despite opposition from our own faculty advisers.
