= Science makes progress funeral by funeral
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/09/25/progress/ on <Quote Investigator>.
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.
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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
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