An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarised with the ideas from the beginning.
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"Science advances one funeral at a time."
"A scientist must be a man of faith, not in the sense of a believer in dogma, but in the sense of a man who believes in the possibility of discovering new truths."
"We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future."
"The soul is the seat of all knowledge and all truth."
"A scientist is a man who tries to understand the world by experiment, and a philosopher is a man who tries to understand the world by thought."
From 'Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers', reflecting on scientific progress.
Date: 1949
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