Quotes About Change

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is -- a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

If it's good, they'll stop making it.

Heute ist der Terrorist an die Stelle des Mörders von einst getreten.

Nirgendwo werden aus vermeintlichen Absurditäten so schnell Normalitäten wie auf dem Gebiet der Inneren Sicherheit.

conversion is a necessary and moral duty for every man.

conversion means a religious and moral change in man, by which he gives up his sinful ways and learns to know, love, and serve with his whole heart the true God who has revealed himself in Christ;

Evolution is a great word but it turns its back on difficulties and sums up a rich and complicated reality under a vague formula.

All worldviews, therefore, end in an eschatology and all efforts at reformation are animated by faith in the future.

What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.

Formerly men said that life was thought, but now we are told that life is will.

The notion that all peoples are on the road to progress is as incorrect as that they are continuously declining and degenerating.

The superhuman task of transforming present society into a state of peace and joy requires more than ordinary human power; if God himself does not work the change, hope can be cherished only when human power is divinized.

No psychology of religion can teach us what conversion is and ought to be; the Scriptures alone can tell us that.

If there ever is to be a blessed humanity it must be preceded by a radical change in human nature.

328An optimism which is exclusively built on evolution is always transmuted into pessimism if one ponders a little more deeply.

In de tijd dat ik veronderstelde een revolutionair te zijn liet ik mijn baard groeien. De revolutie kwam echter niet. Ik had te weinig idealen.

Ik denk dat m'n engelbewaarder vervangen is door een collega met meer verstand van zaken.