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.
Quantum theory
Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
1949 (posthumous, reflecting earlier thoughts)
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"Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination."
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