Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1665 |
| AUTHOR: | Max Planck (1858–1947) |
| 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. |
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| SUBJECTS: | Science |