| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 1665 |
| AUTHOR: | Max Planck (18581947) |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | MAX PLANCK, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, trans. Frank Gaynor, pp. 3334 (1950). |
| SUBJECTS: | Science |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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