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As Max Planck said, science advances one funeral at a time. Each one had to wait for a previous generation to die to cement their own advance.
by ncmncm 4y ago
As Max Planck said, science advances one funeral at a time. Each one had to wait for a previous generation to die to cement their own advance.
- archhn 4y agoIncidentally, I remember young Kirkegaard writing that he didn't want to pursue science because each scientist is like a corpse that just fecundates the soil of science for the next generation--paraphrasing. That's why he went into the study of eternal things.