Quotes About Paradigm

If we try to put together what we have learned in the twentieth century about the physical world, the clues point toward something profoundly different from our instinctive understanding of matter, space, and time.

Copernicus, gezegenlerin dans?n?n merkezinde dünyan?n de?il, güne?in oldu?unu anlad? ve bunu kan?tlad?. Gezegenimiz di?erleri gibi bir gezegen konumuna geldi.

Physics opens windows through which we see far into the distance. What we see does not cease to astound us. We realize that we are full of prejudices and that our intuitive image of the world is partial, parochial, inadequate

A novel image of the world is taking shape: a world without space and without time. The space where the world "inhabits" and the time "along which" things evolve might soon disappear from our fundamental description of the physical world, in the same manner in which notions such as "the centre of the universe" have disappeared in the past.

El pensamiento científico se nutre de la capacidad de ver las cosas de manera distinta de cómo las veíamos antes

Quién dice que los elefantes no pueden bailar?

Trebali smo promijeniti svijet,zar ne?Sranje.Umjesto toga svijet je promijenio nas.

Whatever you believe imprisons you. Convictions create convicts.

To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

We have become unable to think of better education except in terms of more complex schools and of teachers trained for ever longer periods.

The notion that anyone in the 21st century could take seriously the notion that the sun orbits the Earth, or that the Earth is the center of the universe, is almost unbelievable.

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

think the mentality has its origins in the Puritan moral framework: the emphasis on fitting into a strict hierarchical structure, the element of self-loathing, the horror of anything pleasurable or artistic or unregimented . . . But I've always wondered how that paradigm made the transition to become the boundary, not just of virtue, but of reality itself.

The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a single man and never overnight

takes us the farther distance from the Old World to something new and revolutionary in human thought. That moral center, however, is hard to find with modern eyes. Locating it requires

Many ideas, once held to be true, have come to be regarded as wrong and evil," Berkman wrote. Thus the ideas of the divine right of kings, of slavery and serfdom. There was a time when the whole world believed those institutions to be right, just, and unchangeable.

The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. —Albert Einstein

As the place is worth seeing, nobody goes there.