Quotes About Paradigm

Were revolutions ever really what we thought them to be?

Rather than propose a new theory or unearth a new fact, often the most important contribution a scientist can make is to discover a new way of seeing old theories or facts.

Something has shifted in the intervening decades. It has shifted in all of us, and the shift has no connection with religion. If anything, it happens in spite of religion, not because of it.

It's never the changes we want that change everything.

As we have seen, so many of the things we once took for granted have proved unreliable that we may have to "forget" old ways of thought in order to meet the current challenges.

Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.

The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.

Going back to the paradigm we live in, the only way to do music is if I can sustain living off of it. If I can't live off of it, I'm not going to be able to make as much music.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.

Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.

You will make a perfectly rational mistake: You will assume that sooner or later the paradigm you are presently practicing (which has been mostly successful) will solve all the rest of your problems.

You can't change our world without first changing our thoughts and beliefs.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

The World is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.

Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

The biggest challenge, Yong Zhao states, "is our mindset about what makes good education and the seductive power of the traditional paradigm." At the end of the day, as much as we may claim to value those other, more immeasurable things, we end up looking to old tests and scores to tell us how well our kids are doing.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

How we view ourselves and define ourselves is perhaps the most essential paradigm we have as human beings. It determines all of our actions and reactions.