Quotes About Paradigm

All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.

Capital T truth is dead.

Remember, today's truth could be tomorrow's absurdity.

Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it.

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

if you are seeking to preserve a certain worldview, it actually helps to gut science.

It's the idea that is a tiny push away from general acceptance and, when it gets that push, will change the world. The

Thirty years of nutritional advice have left us fatter, sicker, and more poorly nourished. Which is why we find ourselves in the predicament we do: in need of a whole new way to think about eating.

published in 1980, John McPhee noted that even then one American geologist in eight still didn't believe in plate tectonics. Today

The antigovernment paradigm blinds us to possibilities that lie outside its ideological litmus tests and prevents us from creating new networks of cooperation that can restore economic growth, bring economic opportunity to more people and places, and increase our ability to lead the world to a better future.

Toute abstraction est si dure à accepter que notre premier réflexe est de la refuser, d'autant plus si elle s'inscrit à contre-courant de ce que nous avons toujours pensé.»

When you're in the paradigm, you can't see the paradigm.

strange days are upon us. Tradition served us, but now it shackles us.

The power of belief alone could change the course of history.

Nunca son los cambios que queremos los que cambian todo.

As with any field, if something does not fit into the current understanding of how things work, it raises eyebrows, hackles or both.

Rockets now evoke a slightly old-fashioned kind of wonder, because they stand for an obsolete version of technological prowess. In the scheme of history which has become the most popular version of the recent past, the Space Age counts as the final phase of the Age of Industry – its culmination, just before the paradigm changed and the Age of Information replaced steel with digits.

I began to sense the depth of my ignorance about the country I was talking about. On the road, I'd be parroting the party line, saying that America was godless and doomed. But the America I was actually experiencing (for the first time as a resident) was not doomed. It was more complicated and wonderful than I had ever imagined.

They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.

To move into the mainstream, the ideational contender has to reframe the crisis by changing the very definition of reality.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available... a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

Everything you assumed is no longer valid.

At what point does the normal suddenly become the abnormal? he