I think the idea originated with Max Planck: German physicist Max Planck somewhat cynically declared, science advances one funeral at a time. Planck noted “a n

I think the idea originated with Max Planck: German physicist Max Planck somewhat cynically declared, science advances one funeral at a time. Planck noted “a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”