Quotes About Paradigm

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

My final slide quoted the words of biologist Louis Agassiz: 'Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

Sports evolve when sacred cows are killed, when basic assumptions are tested. The same is true in life and in lifestyles.

Very few people wake up one morning and decide to change their theology. Changes in a person's belief system are seldom that self-conscious.

Thomas Kuhn, who once said that he came to realize that he did not understand a thinker until he could see the world through that thinker's eyes.

The science of human nature… finds itself today in the position that chemistry occupied in the days of alchemy." Alfred Adler

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.

There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!

The science of today is a light matter….Those amazing truths that our descendants will discover are even now all around us, staring us in the eyes, so to speak; and yet we do not see them. But it is not enough to say that we do not see them; we do not wish to see them — for as soon as an unexpected and unfamiliar fact appears, we try to fit it into the framework of the commonplaces of accepted knowledge, and are indignant that anyone should dare to experiment further.

Until you change the way that you look at things,Those things will never change.

humans believed that the earth was flat and ships venturing across the seas risked sailing off the edge. However, when we proved that the earth was round, the flat-earth advocates were eventually silenced. Creationists are today's flat-earth advocates, and I would be shocked if anyone still believes in Creationism a hundred years from now.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings.

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.

What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

it began to be noted that the Wig had gone over the edge. Specifically, the Finn said, the Wig had become convinced that God lived in cyberspace, or perhaps that cyberspace was God, or some new manifestation of same. The Wig's ventures into theology tended to be marked by major paradigm shifts, true leaps of faith.

It was vaguely like riding a roller coaster that phased in and out of existence at random, impossibly rapid intervals, changing altitude, attack, and direction with each pulse of nothingness, except that the shifts had nothing to do with any physical orientation, but rather with lightning alternations in paradigm and symbol system. The data had never been intended for human input.

If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.