Quotes About Paradigm

The Copernican system was not a truly heliocentric one; it was a vacuo-centric system, so to speak.

The problem of the planetary orbits had been hopelessly bogged down in its purely geometrical frame of reference, and when Kepler realized that he could not get it unstuck, he tore it out of that frame and removed it into the field of physics. This operation of removing a problem from its traditional context and placing it into a new one, looking at it through glasses of of a different colour as it were, has always seemed to me of the very essence of the creative process.

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened

that when you change what you believe, you change what you do.

when you change what you believe, you change what you do.

He knew that when you change what you believe, you change what you do.

And, as Albert Einstein pointed out, it is impossible to solve problems with the same level of thinking that created them.

The parity principles show how our tools, especially well-designed tools, can profoundly enhance our capabilities to understand. If we define the mind as the brain, we must also admit to its limitations. There is much we cannot remember or learn or analyze or make sense of, until we extend the mind outward. This is why we make tools and technologies, not for their own sake, but to overcome the inherent limitations of our innate cognitive capabilities. This is the work of design.

The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.

We have seen in this chapter how, in less than half a century, man's view of the universe, formed over millennia, has been transformed.

The Ionian idea that the universe is not human-centered was a milestone

Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.

Single facts almost never slay worldviews, at least not right away.

To change your perspective, you have to change your perspective.

Yra laik?, ir mano nuomone, mes dabar esam tokiuos laikuos, kai konservatiškumas, "atsilikimas" yra kur kas pažangiau, kur kas avangardiškiau, negu bet kokie viešai pripažinti "pažang?s" jud?jimai ar reiškiniai.

We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.

He destroyed an entire way of seeing the world, one that had held sway from the beginning of history, and he replaced it with another way of seeing the world. Included in the old way of seeing things was the idea that the evil of slavery was good.

Once this idea was loosed upon the world, the world changed.

Before we can resolve our endless quandaries about food - such as 'where the zucchini came from and how far it had to travel' - we should first establish the basic paradigm that at certain times, every day, we stop, we sit and we eat.

The paradigm experience of solitude is a state characterized by disengagement from the immediate demands of other people – a state of reduced social inhibition and increased freedom to select one's mental and physical activities.

Sometimes it is time to think the unthinkable,

Michelangelo knew that for the Church to fulfill the will of God, it had to become a paradigm of true brotherhood. There had to be a bridge between rich and poor, between privileged and downtrodden, between those who ostensibly spoke for God and those who desperately needed divine assistance.

It is easy to see what is heresy today, but who can tell what will be heresy tomorrow.

The heterodoxy of one age will become the orthodoxy of the next.