"A new 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, A Scientific Autobiography (1949).
"Funeral by funeral, theory advances."
ReplyDelete--Paul Samuelson
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