Planck's principle
English
editEtymology
editFormulated by Max Planck.
Proper noun
edit- 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[1], 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.
Further reading
edit- Planck's principle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia