"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."
— Science

January 1, 1970

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Max Planck, Wissenschaftliche Selbstbiographie. Mit einem Bildnis und der von Max von Laue gehaltenen Traueransprache (Leipzig: 1948), p. 35; tr. tr. F. Gaynor, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers (New York, 1949), pp. 33-34 (as cited in T. S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions)