新买了一本谈量子史实的书，Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality（by Manjit Kumar, WW Norton & Co, 2010）,看到量子论祖师爷Planck暮年说过一句意味深长的话：

New scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

后来发现，类似的话他以前也说过：

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

在科学圈子里的人“偶尔”能感受到这一点，而“大尺度”的科学史似乎不容易反映这些“细节”。