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.

Max Planck (1858-1947) German physicist
Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, trans. Frank Gaynor (1950)

 
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