 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - 1959 - 394 pages
...somewhat bitterly identifies this often overlooked dimension of scientific evolution when he observes, "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing...new generation grows up that is familiar with it." 23 For the sociologist as teacher, therefore, the implications of these new directions are real and... | |
 | National Science Foundation (U.S.) - 1961 - 64 pages
...experience," he said, "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...new generation grows up that is familiar with it." " Such bitterness is not tempered by objective understanding of resistance as a constant phenomenon... | |
 | William H. Cropper - 1970 - 274 pages
...eliminated." Planck was probably not surprised. In an earlier controversy he had learned what to expect: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing...new generation grows up that is familiar with it." In the vanguard of the new generation was the junior patent examiner in Berne, who not only believed... | |
 | Bernard Grant Campbell - 392 pages
...new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents, but rather because its opponents die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." At least one further generation will be required before the implications of man's place in nature are... | |
 | Robert K. Merton - 1973 - 639 pages
...resist new ideas.42 As Planck, who did not develop the idea of the quantum until he was 42, remarked: "a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing...and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."43 Observations of this sort, based on lore rather than systematic evidence, raise the perennial... | |
 | Daniel Greenberg - 1974 - 382 pages
...absence of objectivity, as has already been pointed out in the text. 38. Compare Max Planck's statement: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing...new generation grows up that is familiar with it." Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers., trans. Frank! Gaynor (New York: Philosophical Library,... | |
 | Martin Slattery - 2003 - 308 pages
...novel problems posed by the new framework, until that too reaches its limits. As Max Planck remarked: 'a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing...new generation grows up that is familiar with it' (quoted in Kuhn 1970). As examples of scientific revolutions, Kuhn cites the developments associated... | |
 | John W. Bodnar - 2003 - 208 pages
...it took steamship technology almost a century before it became an integral part of Navy culture.81 A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing...new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck Why the resistance to change? Why does it take generations for a true RMC? It appears that... | |
 | Helmuth Nyborg - 2003 - 668 pages
...said that a theory dies only when its inventor dies or, phrased more elegantly by Max Planck: "... a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing...new generation grows up that is familiar with it". This suggests that the readiness with which we accept, construct or defend certain types of theory... | |
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Autobiography, sadly remarked that "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. 
