Quotes About Change

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

The most developed science remains a continual becoming

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.

From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

If you can't change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.