Planck Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“Science advances one funeral at a time. Only when one generation passes away do new theories have a chance to root out old ones.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Max Planck, surveying his own career in his Scientific Autobiography, sadly remarked that “a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“As physicist Max Planck once observed, “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but…

— Adam M. Grant

“Science is an ongoing process. It never ends. There is no single ultimate truth to be achieved, after which all the scientists can retire.”

— Carl Sagan

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and…

— Nikola Tesla

At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a comprehensive theory…

— Val Logsdon Fitch

Science is the never ending search for facts which may never be quite understood and only apprehended by the poetic intuition. Max Planck

— Max Planck Theoretical Physicist

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a…

— William James

Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will…

— Claude Bernard

The most developed science remains a continual becoming

— Jean Piaget

Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in…

— Seneca the Younger

The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.

— Freeman Dyson