In understanding our world, we learn about it, but we also learn from it. A paradigm is a way of organizing and condensing sensory information .
Like learning in general, paradigms help in the study of physical science by helping us to organize information and understand our world.
Our paradigms also affect the way we design, record, and interpret our experiments and observations, as scientists and as humans.
As the old saying goes, "You can get just as drunk on water as you can on land."