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Quotes About Paradigm

School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.
~ John Taylor Gatto
I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.
~ Octavia Spencer
Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.
~ George Ayittey
Get it out of your historic head.
~ Imogen Cunningham
Copernicus not only moved the Earth but also set in motion the minds of men
~ Giordano Bruno
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
~ Graham Greene
For more than half a century, [...] American archaeology was so riddled with pre-formed opinions about how the past should look, and about the orderly, linear way in which civilizations should evolve, that it repeatedly missed, sidelined, and downright ignored evidence for any human presence at all prior to Clovis--until, at any rate, the mass of that evidence became so overwhelming that it took the existing paradigm by storm.
~ Graham Hancock
A dominant individual, with a prestigious position, can delay the progress of knowledge for decades but ultimately cannot stop the buildup of contrary evidence and opinions that will lead to a new paradigm.
~ Graham Hancock
We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong
~ Gregory Bateson
Probably the worst thing that ever happened to the movies was the megahit.
~ Elvis Mitchell
Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule.
~ Neel Mukherjee
We already have many of the technologies and tools that we need to build a sustainable future. What we don't have is a new way of thinking, and that's really the hardest part.
~ Alex Steffen
I dislike the phrase 'social media.' 'Social media' is merely a way to describe new tools in an old and narrow paradigm where we measure success by how many people are reached.
~ Jared Cohen
To improve our current understanding of the laws of physics, we have to be open to the possibility that we're gonna invent more words, more concepts, and more ways of looking at the same universe, that help us recast those laws, extend them, generalise them, and go beyond what we currently know, into the physics that we don't yet understand but hope someday to do.
~ Sean Carroll
argued for new ways of thinking about length and duration.
~ Sean Carroll
The key to changing yourself is to first change your perspective or paradigm
~ Sean Covey
by changing your thinking you can change your world.
~ Serge Kahili King
It is not accidental that the walls of European cities began to be broken about the same time that heliocentric astronomy destroyed the idea of the world as cosmos or 'order' and removed the finite boundary of the Universe.
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr
You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up to you since the time of your birth.
~ Frederick Lenz
As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.
~ Holbrook Jackson
It is time to change the paradigm of the church and of every Christian
~ Sunday Adelaja
Lying is the message. Its not just that both Putin and Trump lie, it is that they lie in the same way for the same purpose: blatantly, to assert power of the truth itself. The Putin Paradigm, New York Review of Books
~ Masha Gessen
With these startling honesties glinting up at us from history's broken mirror, it strikes me that this is worth shouting from the rooftops: We could be wrong this time, again. The enemy may not be exactly what we think. It may be a force that resides in many quarters, including inside our skin, in our very words, the questions we frame, the things we love most, the things we can't live without. Our greatest dread may be our salvation.
~ Barbara Kingsolver