Second, Popper and Kuhn were right in thinking that in order to explain science’s critical power, proprietary forms of motivation are at least as important as proprietary logical tools. The tools tell you what to do with the evidence, but that is of no use unless you have the right kind of data, and plenty of it. The production of such data requires, in most cases, an intense and prolonged focus on details of little intrinsic interest. Scientific inquiry needs something, then, to induce thinkers to devote their lives to an enterprise that is in its daily routine mundane and largely
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