[tacticalogic]

Oh, I get your misunderstanding. Max Planck, being foremost in quantum physics, was saying that out of frustration with the scientific community which held to the classical model. He was saying in the quote that scientific progress was not made by individual scientists, but intergenerationally.

I get that. What I don't get is the assertion that this particular quote, made out of frustration and taken out of context, should be taken as the best possible reference to assess scientific theory in general.

[dan1123]

Because I was responding to narby's overreaching statement, "Science will admit what it does not know". While many scientists throughout the ages, in particular Max Planck, experienced when science did not admit it does not know.