>[!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". ("Planck's principle", 2025). >[!note] >This is trivially generalizable beyond science. ## References - Planck's principle. (2025, January 3). In *Wikipedia*. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Planck%27s_principle&oldid=1245485081