ABSTRACT
A school of thought arises as a sociological phenomenon when there is an emotional commitment to a controlling intrinsotheme and isomorpheme. A scientific school, as a socioemotional group, can at times engender a species of fanaticism which we scarcely associate with the pursuit of scientific method. The suicide of Ludwig Boltzmann did not dampen the methodological polemics waged between the phenomenological and atomic schools. In effect, the "general law" underlying the strife of scientific schools was in Boltzmann's view, the conflict between generations of scientists, the old and the new; hence Boltzmann felt himself a lonely survivor of the old, fighting off the tireless, endless onslaughts of a host of young. The way of wisdom is to understand how "scientific revolution," in its illusory character, is Nature's method for liberating human energies for scientific progress.
