Quotes About Change

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." Kennan saw in them the need to regard Bolshevism, "with all its hullabaloo about revolution," not as a turning point in history, but as only another milepost in Russia's "wasteful, painful progress from an obscure origin to an obscure destiny." Nothing in Brown's dispatches or in Kennan's training, however, anticipated the horrors of Stalinism. If

THE COLD WAR changed all of that, with the result that Wilson is remembered today as a prophetic realist, while Lenin's statues molder in garbage dumps throughout the former communist world.

The Republic of Ireland didn't have postcodes until 2015.

Information is fleeting. Human records are broken; new particles are discovered; fresh historical documents come to light. Dinosaurs turn out not to be giant grey iguanas after all, but multicoloured feathery proto-birds of all shapes and sizes. Right now, even the daddy of all facts, the Big Bang theory, is looking wobbly.

Douglas, I've made a few small changes to acknowledge the passing of the years. Hope you're alive and well in some parallel universe - you're sadly missed in this one. John Lloyd, Oxfordshire, 2013

The time machine in Back to the Future was originally going to be a fridge; it was changed to a car in case it encouraged children to climb into fridges.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.

Chaos was my philosophy. Oh, yeah. Have no rules. If people start to build fences around you, break out and do something else. You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.

In the whole the face of things, as I say, was much altered; sorrow and sadness sat upon every face; and though some parts were not yet overwhelmed, yet all looked deeply concerned; and as we saw it apparently coming on, so every one looked on himself and his family as in the utmost danger.

if it believes that it knows the truth and that it need not question its beliefs, then that society is more likely to enforce rigid decrees, and less likely to change. If it leaves room for doubt about the truth, it is more likely to be free and open. In

October, not April, would be the cruelest month.

Pandemics generally develop only when a radical change in the hemagglutinin, or the neuraminidase, or both, occurs. When an entirely new gene coding for one or both replaces the old one, the shape of the new antigen bears little resemblance to the old one. This is called "antigen shift.

But sometimes mutations change the shape of the hemagglutinin or neuraminidase enough that the immune system can't read them.

The revolution of modern science and especially medical science began as science not only focused on this answer to "What can I know?" but more important, changed its method of inquiry, changed its answer to "How can I know it?

the prevailing paradigm tends to freeze progress

finally fade away in both the United States and the world. It did not disappear.

This answer involves not simply academic pursuits; it affects how a society governs itself, its structure, how its citizens live. If a society does set Goethe's "Word . . . supremely high," if it believes that it knows the truth and that it need not question its beliefs, then that society is more likely to enforce rigid decrees, and less likely to change. If it leaves room for doubt about the truth, it is more likely to be free and

In a world where so much of our natural heritage is being lost, why not celebrate the few bright spots where it is surviving and adapting?

Indeed, Brand's thinking has evolved in many ways—from anti- to pronuclear, from environmentalism to conservationism, and from libertarianism to something closer to traditional liberalism.

Species diversity can be thought of as an insurance policy against today's environmental change and tomorrow's new evolutionary challenges.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

Yesterday ended last night.

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.