Amit Goswami on History of quantum mechanics
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“The development of the quantum ideas themselves occurred in discrete jumps, quantum leaps of the creative insights of a few people.”
“Intuitively, Planck knew that his work was as important as Newton's in paving a new physics, as he privately confided to his son in 1901. Because of his own conservative beliefs, Planck felt stymied by the revolutionary nature of his own ideas... In truth, Planck was only underestimating the importance of his work, if anything. In retrospect... it started a revolution in science—the quantum revolution—compared to which the Copernican revolution pales.”