Reply #36: Interesting thought...

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Thank you. I had never heard that quotation before - it is an interesting thought. Here is a translation of the original in context:

"This experience 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 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."
pgs. 33-34, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers by Max Planck

Please note that the name Planck has a 'c' in it - if you care about any degree of exactitude. Otherwise, people who read your future comments might have a difficult time finding your future equivalent reference to something like Jon Lenin's famous song Give Peas a Chant.