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Max Planck: 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. Wissenschaftliche Selbstbiographie. Mit einem Bildnis und der von Max von Laue gehaltenen Traueransprache., Johann Ambrosius Barth Verlag, (Leipzig 1948), p. 22, as translated in Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, trans. F. Gaynor (New York, 1949), pp.33-34 (as cited in T.S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions). Paraphrased variants: Die Wahrheit triumphiert nie, ihre Gegner sterben nur aus. Truth never triumphs — its opponents just die out. Science advances one funeral at a time. On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Alain Sepeda <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> either a generation of scientist get their PhD in cereal box, or they >> hide an inconvenient fact. that they cannot find a definitive reason not to >> accept LENR . >> > > Or they suffer from cognitive dissonance having invested their careers and > lives on a belief system that they cannot reset their minds to the truth > which is before them. >
