by Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 32)
From Scientific Autobiography by Max Planck translated by Frank Gaynor (1949):
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Figure 1. How Math works by SMBC Comics. Source. An amazing representation of Science makes progress funeral by funeral. Steps:
  • Step 1: Insight
  • Step 2: Resistance
  • Step 3: Debate
  • Step 4: Additional decades of debate
  • Step 5: Changing of the guard
  • Step 6: Transmission to students

Ancestors

  1. History of science
  2. Science
  3. Index

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