We are so stubborn we have to die for change to happen

Today I came across this saying for Max Planck that goes like:

Science advances one funeral at a time.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Planck#Quotes

I’ve always praised myself for being more open to unusual ideas than the average joe, but this quote by Planck strikes a nerve, especially that in recent years I’ve started dealing with people of the next generation more often than I ever did, and I started to notice how, more often that I’d like to admit, I tend to stick to my opinion “just because I have experience”.