>[!abstract] >In sociology of scientific knowledge, Planck's principle is the view that scientific change does not occur because individual scientists change their mind, but rather that successive generations of scientists have different views. Colloquially, this is often paraphrased as "Science progresses one funeral at a time" (Wikipedia, 2025). >[!note] >This is trivially generalizable beyond science: management techniques, cultural zeitgeist, attitude toward women or LGBTQ, etc. >[!related] >- **North** (upstream): [[Sociology of science]] >- **West** (similar): [[Kuhn's paradigm shifts]] (scientific revolutions replacing old frameworks) >- **East** (different): [[Rational persuasion model]] (scientific progress as cumulative consensus through argument and evidence) >- **South** (downstream): [[Generational turnover in science]]