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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