Quotes About Change

Twenty years ago many chemists would have defended the theory of bond arms as a satisfactory explanation because they had become accustomed to thinking of it as unique and as ultimate.

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination.

A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs.

Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.

Maybe the science is uncertain, maybe we don't have to worry about it. Climate change is the worst, but there's others.

The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.

Science is conservative and one of the reasons science is conservative is science is trying to play it safe.

Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.

The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization.

If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn't being political, it is being selfish.

For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.

I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

Every important idea in science sounds strange at first.

Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

I have examples of people who find their way back later on in life, in their 30's, 40's, it can happen in your 50's, I'm sure it can. It's not really a science. It's maybe more of an art.

The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.

If the world is turning, even the church can't stop it; if it isn't turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.