The obstacles to scientific progress or: The Dead Parrot Sketch
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The physicist Max Planck once quipped: 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. Indeed, even in natural sciences like physics where experiments can confirm or reject a given scientific hypothesis it often takes the death of a leading scientist in a field before new ideas can take over and lead to progress in our understanding of the world. Albert Einstein was famously skeptical about quantum physics, the revolutionary theory developed by Max Planck and others. And while he eventually came to accept quantum physics as correct, he certainly wasn’t helping to spread it widely.
The obstacles to scientific progress or: The Dead Parrot Sketch
The obstacles to scientific progress or: The…
The obstacles to scientific progress or: The Dead Parrot Sketch
The physicist Max Planck once quipped: 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. Indeed, even in natural sciences like physics where experiments can confirm or reject a given scientific hypothesis it often takes the death of a leading scientist in a field before new ideas can take over and lead to progress in our understanding of the world. Albert Einstein was famously skeptical about quantum physics, the revolutionary theory developed by Max Planck and others. And while he eventually came to accept quantum physics as correct, he certainly wasn’t helping to spread it widely.