"It does seem as if there are periods of time in which we make steady progress, and once in a while leaps and bounds improvements are made all at once." You mi

"It does seem as if there are periods of time in which we make steady progress, and once in a while leaps and bounds improvements are made all at once." You might be interested in Thomas Khun's[1] famous work: "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions".[2] [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...