Quotes About Paradigm

Postmodernity knows that someday the Newtonian worldview will seem as quaint and archaic as the Ptolemaic worldview, a development that has already occurred among theoretical physicists.

Jesus was telling his contemporaries that the kingdom was indeed breaking into history, but that it did not look like what they had expected.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used.

The U.S. and Israel probably lead the way in terms of venture investment in technologies companies focused on the security paradigm. That is quite encouraging.

We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.

Science advances one funeral at a time.

It has never at any time been possible to fit the resurrection of Jesus into any world view except a world view of which it is the basis.

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.

THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA

Our biggest mistake worldwide is our insistence on perceiving every new development as a culmination or a climax. The great "at last" or "inth degree." A constitutional fatalism continuously adjusts itself to the ever-changing present. A pervasive alarmism greets every advance. For two thousand years we have been getting "out of hand.

Paradigmatica Autorevolezza Extranumerica

The status quo doesn't shift because you're right. It shifts because the culture changes. And the engine of culture is status.

The paradigm for our relationships is formed from our earliest experiences and is actually hardwired into our neurological and emotional network.

Well, she said, how can I be sure there aren't invisible people in the world? Scientists didn't believe in the mountain gorilla for hundreds of years. And now look. So if scientists can be wrong, then all of us can be wrong. I mean, what if all those invisible people ARE scientists? Think about that one.

What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was. It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.

In Truk, located in the Marshall Islands, people have traditionally believed in an outer world that corresponds in some ways to our modern conception of outer space.

We can continue to try to make the phenomenon fit the world as we have known it, jamming it into a kind of procrustean bed of consensus reality. Or we can acknowledge that the world might be other than we have known it. Then we are free to see where our thinking leads us.

And I did not foresee how fundamentally challenged the view of the world in which I had been raised would be.

come to the end of this story I cannot help wondering what it might take to bring about the shift in consciousness in the society as a whole, the change of paradigm, that is implicit in what the abductees have undergone.

GREAT ADVANCES DO NOT COME OUT OF SYSTEMS DESIGNED TO PRODUCE GREAT ADVANCES.