Quotes About Change

Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.

There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual.

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.