Your description of how things are is exactly how Thomas Kuhn describes the process of "Normal Science" in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Cracks in o

Your description of how things are is exactly how Thomas Kuhn describes the process of "Normal Science" in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Cracks in our understanding grow, and patchwork theories are put around those contradictions, but eventually the dam breaks and a scientific revolution reshapes the way we think about a subject.