Jeff Berkowitz <[email protected]> wrote: I have used that quote myself many times, always in the sense that author > Cartwright says is incorrect.
I think the author is McKubre. Anyway, here is a more complete version of the quote, from the intro to my book: . . . as Max Planck put it, progress in science occurs “funeral by funeral.” He explained: “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.” Planck, M., A Scientific Autobiography, 1948: Philosophical Library, p. 33 (translated by E. Gaynor) So I sent him a polite email asking why he believed that the more > conventional interpretation is the wrong one. You might want to send him the full quote. - Jed
