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A 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
Truth
Science
Generation
Light
See
Triumph
Rather
New
Because
Scientific
New Generation
Does
Making
Opponents
Scientific Truth
Up
Familiar
Die
Them
Convincing
Eventually
Grows
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
Truth
Generation
Light
See
Triumph
Rather
New
Because
Scientific
New Generation
Does
Making
Opponents
Scientific Truth
Up
Familiar
Die
Them
Convincing
Eventually
Grows
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
Horace Mann
Truth
Truth Is
Light
Paradise
Lost
Walks
Air
Moral
Marvelous
Divine
Scientific
Scientific Truth
Breathes
Whoever
Found
Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.
Nathan Myhrvold
Truth
Knowledge
Relative
Would
Charismatic
Determined
Rather
Part
Most
Attractive
Terribly
Scientific
Contests
Scientific Truth
Scientist
Scientists
Were
According
Effectiveness
Than
Candidates
Human
Which
Successful
Elections
Human Knowledge
Measures
Popular
Popularity
Suffer
Imagine
I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.
Brian Aldiss
Truth
Mind
Subconscious
Come
Sort
Scientific
Scientific Truth
Subconscious Mind
May
Psychological
Them
Help
Believing
Things
Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.
David Douglass
Truth
History
Indeed
Bad
Had
Scientific
Scientific Truth
Consensus