Quotes About Change

Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.

We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.

The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life.

For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yer to yere; And out of olde bokis, in good fey, Comyth al this newe science that men lere.

Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !

Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.

Science advances funeral by funeral

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.

Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred.

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.

Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.