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Quotes About Change

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
~ William S. Burroughs
Our heads are round so thought can change direction
~ Allen Ginsberg
Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.
~ John Muir
All significant breakthroughs are break -"withs" old ways of thinking.
~ Thomas Kuhn
The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.
~ Isaac Newton
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
~ Lyman Beecher
Given any rule, however ?fundamental? or ?necessary? for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite.
~ Paul Feyerabend
Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
~ Vinton Cerf
Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.
~ Ernst Haeckel
Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.
~ Aleister Crowley
I was an impostor, the worthy associate of a brigand, &c., &c., and all this for an atom of chlorine put in the place of an atom of hydrogen, for the simple correction of a chemical formula!
~ Auguste Laurent
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
~ Frederik Pohl
Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.
~ Murray Bookchin
When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
~ John Maynard Keynes
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
~ H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.
~ Bill McKibben
There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
~ Will Durant
Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.
~ Santiago Ramon y Cajal
What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.
~ Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics
~ Brian Cox
Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.
~ Alfred the Great
Magick, in it's own way, is a science of psychology because it uses the power of the mind to bring forth change in one's life.
~ Silver RavenWolf