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by theaino 2363 days ago
> They are very practical like that.

Or not. "Science advances one funeral at a time."

Related HN discussion from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21911225

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Should I have said "physicists"?
It wouldn't help your case since that's a paraphrasing of this quote from Max Planck:

“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.”

. . . but only if it _works_, which is the point I was making.