"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth.
[Often paraphrased as "Science progresses one funeral at a time".]
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Selected Quotes of Sir Edmund Hillary - mountaineer who (with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay) was the first climber to reach Mount Everest's summit
"[We] thought that once we'd climbed the mountain, it was unlikely anyone would ever make another attempt.
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