...As Planck, who did not develop the idea of the quantum until he was 42, remarked: "a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents...and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."43 Observations of this sort, based on lore rather than systematic evidence, raise the perennial...

...directly opposed to mine..." Planck in his "Scientific Autobiography" sadly remarked: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents...but rather because its opponents eventually die...." Thus, even history's greatest scientists, expounding the most profound new truths, had no success in...

...from Surinam, the Netherlands and the Antilles. A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it Max Planck To Marijke van Waas, a Dutch...

...reason was given in the early 1900s by Max Planck, the founder of quantum mechanics: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar...

...1964). d., p. 64. lr>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, p. 149. 17 Personal Knowledge, p. 15. them see the light, but rather because its opponents...and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."ls Finally, with cumulativeness gone, the concept of convergence of belief fails, and with it the...

...reason was given in the early 1900s by Max Planck, the founder of quantum mechanics: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar...

...observes, is that often they are not. As Planck remarked in his Scientific Autobiography, "a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents...and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."6 Where conversion is induced, a number of factors may be involved. The most important is the claim...

...such a situation here. We do not seem to have an example of Planck's contention that "a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents...and a new generation grows up that is familiar with " "Zum gegenwartigen Stand des Strahlungsproblems," Physikalische Zeitschrift, 10 (1909), 185-193;...

...and approvingly cited and denominated nonscandalous Max Planck's observation that "a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents...light, but rather because its opponents eventually die."14 Reading these words, Kuhn's detractors could be excused for worrying whether rational argumentation...

...who believed in the particle theory are now dead." Or as Max Planck said: "A new scientific theory does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making...opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up and is familiar with it." I believe that in our country the era of grand philosophical systems presiding...