Quotes About Paradigm

The world is made of Circles And we think in straight Lines

Aside from this, we should mention two concepts and two names that are still talking points for academics: the paradigm theory developed by Thomas S. Kuhn and the theory of discourse evolved by Michel Foucault. For the moment, it is unclear whether we should read these explorations as value-free ethnologies in the theoretical field or as critical exposure of discursive conformity.

once you recognize that every human model of reality is fundamentally unreal, then it all just comes down to which one works best.

The more you want to explain about a black swan event like the storming of the Bastille," wrote the sociologist Duncan Watts, "the broader you have to draw the boundaries around what you consider to be the event itself.

history hit a curve, and as Karl Marx once quipped, when that happens, the intellectuals fall off.

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.

The traditional model for selling an album isn't the only way of doing things.

The beauty of postmodernism was that it erased the world with one hand while rewriting it with the other, allowing you to inherit the authority you discredited like a spoil of war.

Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.

nuestro siglo XX había transformado la fábula de Mahoma y de la montaña; las montañas, ahora, convergían sobre el moderno Mahoma.

If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs can be a promising way forward. This knowledge-based approach will bring immense returns, particularly in rain fed and dry land farming areas.

We need to have a quintessence belief that our deed can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about dilemmas.

We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.

I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.

In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people would have automatically made them a radical firebrand lefty. That's not the case anymore.

We have found that companies need to speak a common language because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are seemingly counterintuitive. If companies don't have that common language, it is hard for them to come to consensus on a counterintuitive course of action.

If we come to see the purpose of the universe as God's long-term glory rather than our short-term happiness, then we will undergo a critical paradigm shift in tackling the problem of evil and suffering. The world has gone terribly wrong. God is going to fix it. First, for his eternal glory. Second, for our eternal good.

Wenn auch nur etwas von dem, was in diesem Buch über den Todesstern Gizeh oder die zum Waffenbau verwendete Physik steht, annähernd der Wahrheit nahekommt, dann stehen wir in der Tat an der Schwelle zu einem Paradigmenwechsel mit welterschütternden geopolitischen Folgen. Daher hoffe ich, dass nichts von dem, was ich hier beschreibe, wahr ist, und dass ich auf ganzer Linie versagt habe.

The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.

Jesus astonishes his contemporaries by his capacity to see and act beyond conventional assumptions.

The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.