 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - United States - 1959 - 394 pages
...somewhat bitterly identifies this often overlooked dimension of scientific evolution when he observes, "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing...new generation grows up that is familiar with it." 23 For the sociologist as teacher, therefore, the implications of these new directions are real and... | |
 | National Science Foundation (U.S.) - Engineering - 1961 - 64 pages
...experience," he said, "gave me also an opportunity to learn a new fact — a remarkable one, in my opinion : A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing...new generation grows up that is familiar with it." " Such bitterness is not tempered by objective understanding of resistance as a constant phenomenon... | |
 | Bernard Grant Campbell - Science - 392 pages
...new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents, but rather because its opponents die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." At least one further generation will be required before the implications of man's place in nature are... | |
 | Robert K. Merton - Social Science - 1973 - 639 pages
...resist new ideas.42 As Planck, who did not develop the idea of the quantum until he was 42, remarked: "a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing...and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."43 Observations of this sort, based on lore rather than systematic evidence, raise the perennial... | |
 | Joel J. Kupperman - Philosophy - 2002 - 168 pages
...1 The long run of course may be rather long. It is worth recalling Max Planck's famous remark that 'a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing...new generation grows up that is familiar with it'. Scientific Autobiography, pp. 33-4, quoted in Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions... | |
 | Tim Weitzel - Computers - 2003 - 312 pages
...Figure 101: Opinions of MIS managers of the Fortune 1,000 study 5.2 Closing the standardization gap "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing...new generation grows up that is familiar with it." Max Planck 5.2.1 Solution designs for standardization problems 184 a centralized perspective. In the... | |
 | Stephen J. Huxley, J Brent Burns - Business & Economics - 2004 - 336 pages
...(www.ideacenter.org). The Max Planck statement to which Northrop was referring is as follows: "... a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing...new generation grows up that is familiar with it." From Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers by Max Planck (Nobel Laureate, Physics, 1918), translated... | |
 | Dean Keith Simonton - Psychology - 2004 - 236 pages
...attributed to what is known as Planck's Principle. Planck (1949) expressed the principle as follows: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing...new generation grows up that is familiar with it" (pp. 33-34). In other words, as scientists get older they tend to become less receptive to new ideas... | |
 | Massimiano Bucchi - Science - 2004 - 172 pages
...often corresponds to a change of generations. He cites a celebrated saying by the physicist Max Planck, 'A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing...new generation grows up that is familiar with it' (Kuhn, 1962: 150). An old paradigm may be abandoned for numerous reasons, and not infrequently they... | |
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Autobiography, sadly remarked that "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. 
