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I feel like he may be romanticizing the past. Wasn't it one of the Copenhagen Interpretation founders who said, "Good ideas succeed after the old generation opp
by IAmBroom 1y ago
I feel like he may be romanticizing the past. Wasn't it one of the Copenhagen Interpretation founders who said, "Good ideas succeed after the old generation opposing them die off" ? (Very rough quote, but I can't find it in a search.)
- FiatLuxDave 1y agoYou are probably thinking of: "A 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
- vixen99 1y agoWhile it's obviously true in some cases that science 'progresses funeral by funeral', some exceptions are noted here as in plate tectonics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle