What is "normal science" Thomas Kuhn?

Question

Normal science: Is a highly cumulative enterprise, eminently successful in its aim, the steady extension of the scope and precision of scientific knowledge. Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and when successful finds none.

This is what we were given to work with and I have absolutley no idea what it means. HELP!

Answer 1

what Kuhn was saying was that once there is an accepted premise, scientists work to validate it and find more evidence for it.  They don't look for "new things" (novelites) and don't expect to find them.

However, what's NOT part of your quote, is that Kuhn also believed that people could come along who weren't familiar with the current "premises" and come up with entirely new ways of looking at things.  Read more about Kuhn and Normal Science at the link below.