This is such a famous truism that there's even a paper that investigates whether or not science really advances one funeral at a time: https://www.nber.org/pap

This is such a famous truism that there's even a paper that investigates whether or not science really advances one funeral at a time: https://www.nber.org/papers/w21788 https://www.nber.org/papers/w21788 edit: heh, too slow - it was already posted in the few minutes I took to read the article