Re: [xml-dev] A question of necessity

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John Cowan <>
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"Liam R. E. Quin" <>
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2016-04-28T18:50:13Z
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Re: [xml-dev] A question of necessity

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Liam R. E. Quin <[email protected]> wrote:

I've heard it said that scientific advances come only when people who
championed the orthdox view die off.

Max Planck.  "Eine neue wissenschaftliche Wahrheit pflegt sich nicht in der Weise durchzusetzen, daß ihre Gegner überzeugt werden und sich als belehrt erklären, sondern vielmehr dadurch, daß ihre Gegner allmählich aussterben und daß die heranwachsende Generation von vornherein mit der Wahrheit vertraut gemacht ist."  But he was wrong: plate tectonics was adopted within 10-15 years, even in places like the Soviet Union that were pretty much cut off from scientific interchange, without any major extinction in the geological community.


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