Re:Thomas Kuhn Wasn't So Bad
by kontorStol on Sunday April 14, 2019 @04:29PM
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"I think Kuhn goes so far as to say that sometimes the old paradigm can only be laid to rest when its last proponents die."
Or sometimes the old paradigm turns into religion
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"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." -- Max Planck https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Planck
Or the shorthand version "Science advances one funeral at at a time."