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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. "
Competitive problems in the drug industry: hearings before Subcommittee on ... - Page 10792
by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Monopoly and Anticompetitive Activities, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Monopoly - 1967 - 15579 pages
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Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2001 ...

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...
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Scientific Manpower, Volume 9

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...
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The Quantum Physicists: And an Introduction to Their Physics

William H. Cropper - Science - 1970 - 274 pages
...eliminated." Planck was probably not surprised. In an earlier controversy he had learned what to expect: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing...new generation grows up that is familiar with it." In the vanguard of the new generation was the junior patent examiner in Berne, who not only believed...
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Sexual Selection And the Descent of Man: The Darwinian Pivot

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...
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The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations

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...
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A Modern Theory of Language Evolution

Carl J. Becker - Anthropological linguistics - 2004 - 413 pages
...stunned incredulity. It reminds us of the well known comment by Max Planck concerning scientific change: a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing...new generation grows up that is familiar with it. In the future Greenberg will probably be remembered as the Vesalius of linguistics when the academy...
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Science in Society: An Introduction to Social Studies of Science

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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ASSET DEDICATION: How to Grow Wealthy with the Next Generation of Asset ...

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...
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Creativity in Science: Chance, Logic, Genius, and Zeitgeist

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...
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Contribution of Medical Informatics to Health: Integrated Clinical Data and ...

Bernd Blobel - Medical informatics - 2004 - 150 pages
...some knowledge from previous experiences. As Max Planck wrote in "La conoscen:a del mondo fisico": "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing...new generation grows up that is familiar with it". Ensure a well thought-out eHealth strategy. The strategy for eHealth implementation is more about information...
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