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The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln
by C.A. Tripp - 2005 - 384 pages
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Concepts and Controversies in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Jonathan S. Abramowitz, Arthur C. Houts - Psychology - 2006 - 436 pages
...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" (cited in Kuhn, 1970, p. 151). What does all of this portend for the future of incommensurability in...
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Metamorphosis - Structures of Cultural Transformations

Jürgen Schlaeger - 2005 - 304 pages
...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." Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd ed., enlarged (Chicago: University of...
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Rhetoric and Incommensurability

Randy Allen Harris - Science - 2005 - 598 pages
...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" (Planck 1950, 33-34; Kuhn 1996,151; see RA Harris 1998). There is little sense in this situation of...
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The Vibrational Universe: Harnessing the Power of Thought to Consciously ...

Kenneth James Michael MacLean - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2005 - 315 pages
...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." — Quoted in TS Kuhn, 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.' Einstein also said, "Whoever undertakes...
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The Curious History of Relativity: How Einstein's Theory of Gravity was Lost ...

Jean Eisenstaedt - General relativity (Physics). - 2006 - 382 pages
...A new scientific theory 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. Max PlancV GENERAL RELATIVITY, that is, Einstein's theory of gravitation, has long been considered incomprehensible....
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The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem

Peter Swirski - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 206 pages
...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 Betrization is a medical procedure posited by Lem in his 1961 novel Return from the Stars. In this...
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Pricing on Purpose: Creating and Capturing Value

Ronald J. Baker - Business & Economics - 2010 - 402 pages
...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, physicist [1858-1947] Winston Churchill once said America will do the right thing — once it has exhausted...
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Ending in Ice: The Revolutionary Idea and Tragic Expedition of Alfred Wegener

Roger M. McCoy - Science - 2006 - 212 pages
...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 Serious discussion of continental drift came to a standstill after the American Association of Petroleum...
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Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design

Jonathan Wells - Science - 2006 - 290 pages
...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." —Quantum physicist Max Planck, 1949 196 tially circular (Kuhn called them "incommensurable"), then...
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Einstein in the Boardroom: Moving Beyond Intellectual Capital to I-Stuff

Suzanne S. Harrison, Patrick H. Sullivan - Law - 2006 - 241 pages
...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.' " Hopefully, we would not need quite so drastic a solution as this in the world of accounting. However,...
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