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Shimpling Chadacre's avatar

There's a long way to go yet. The credentialled classes will cover each other's asses until kingdom comes - there but for the grace of God go I.

As German physicist Max Planck somewhat cynically declared, science advances one funeral at a time. Planck noted “a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”

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Mrs. McFarland's avatar

Aka anecdotal evidence eventually wins.....great quote!

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