When I transferred from NY (Xerox layed off 7,000 of the 16,000 Xerox employees in the Rochester area) to.govtovwork for Being, I called a phone number for Everett Masonic Lodge No 137. WM Sam called me back. After visiting, I was voted in to be a member (then asked to step out of the Lodge). The JW Chair was empty, and I was voted in to fill it (things changed in that Lodge, as I had been WM of Webster Masonic Lodge No. 538).
We do change in our Lodges, slowly. Most often, I think, when as you did, new men come from outside. I think I was similar when I moved to Centralia, I was able to bring some ideas from elsewhere here.
“A 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.”
It comes from his 1949 book Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers (translated from German). The wording is often shortened into the darker paraphrase:
“Science advances one funeral at a time.”
Planck was reflecting on how difficult it can be for deeply established scientific paradigms to change — not just in quantum physics, but in science generally. Ironically, even Planck himself was initially cautious about some of the more radical implications of quantum mechanics that later physicists embraced.
When I transferred from NY (Xerox layed off 7,000 of the 16,000 Xerox employees in the Rochester area) to.govtovwork for Being, I called a phone number for Everett Masonic Lodge No 137. WM Sam called me back. After visiting, I was voted in to be a member (then asked to step out of the Lodge). The JW Chair was empty, and I was voted in to fill it (things changed in that Lodge, as I had been WM of Webster Masonic Lodge No. 538).
We do change in our Lodges, slowly. Most often, I think, when as you did, new men come from outside. I think I was similar when I moved to Centralia, I was able to bring some ideas from elsewhere here.
A quote commonly attributed to Max Planck is:
“A 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.”
It comes from his 1949 book Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers (translated from German). The wording is often shortened into the darker paraphrase:
“Science advances one funeral at a time.”
Planck was reflecting on how difficult it can be for deeply established scientific paradigms to change — not just in quantum physics, but in science generally. Ironically, even Planck himself was initially cautious about some of the more radical implications of quantum mechanics that later physicists embraced.
So it is with Freemasonry.