Planck's principle

English

Etymology

Formulated by Max Planck.

Proper noun

Planck's principle

  1. The view that “science progresses one funeral at a time”, that scientific progress happens when older generations of scientists retire or die.
    • 2012, Samuel Arbesman, The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date‎, Penguin, →ISBN:
      However, Planck's Principle turns out to be wrong. This can be seen through a careful examination of the work of Charles Darwin. The quintessential phase transition in science, and paradigm shift, is that of the theory of evolution by natural selection.

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