Sunday, May 29, 2022

The Limitations of Science

 Max Planck, the discoverer of the quanta of Quantum Mechanics tried in vain to persuade the physicists of Europe in the early 20th century that this discovery solved many of Newtonian physics' problems. Finally, he declared "The truth never triumphs, its opponents simply die out. Science advances one funeral at a time."

This more-recent Tweet demonstrates that was not unique to the early 20th century.


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