Quotes About Paradigm

Female monsters take things as personally as they really are. They study facts. Even if rejection makes them feel like the girl who's not invited to the party, they have to understand the reasons why. ... Every question, once it's formulated, is a paradigm, contains its own internal truth. We have to stop diverting ourselves with false questions. And I told Warren: I aim to be a female monster too.

I'm most interested in that moment when my entire perspective changes, and I have to reconsider everything.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Of course this is a mind-set that a nation can be stunned into. All you need is a century or two of freedoms and strictures that appear and disappear between one year and the next, words and deeds that were frowned upon just yesterday receiving vehement acclaim today

Social thought is unable not to keep its original structure.

But by the term 'scientific' is understood just what was formerly understood by the term 'religious': just as formerly everything called 'religious' was held to be unquestionable simply because it was called religious, so now all that is called 'scientific' is held to be unquestionable.

watching the movement of history, we see that every year and with each new writer, opinion as to what is good for mankind changes; so that what once seemed good, ten years later seems bad, and vice versa.

Time and space are absolute. Diseases are evil spirits that inhabit the body. Parallel lines never meet. The earth is the center of the universe. Children are miniature adults. At one time in history each of these beliefs was generally held to be true. Each, however, gave way to different ideas and even different world views.

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.

Jesus is much more concerned about shaking your foundations, giving you an utterly alternative self image, world image, and God image, and thus reframing your entire reality. Mere inspiration can never do this.

My typical paradigm is that I do believe in public service. My father's a military man. He really does always speak about the fact that there is actually nothing more valuable that you can do than actually to serve your country. And I buy that.

It's confusing to suddenly have to reappraise all you know, to rejigger one's outlook in the light of new knowledge, and realize that everything you thought was truth and justice was little more than an elaborate fiction.

There's thinking outside the box and then there's failing to be able to find the box in the first place. You can't appreciate the new model until you understand the old one and why it isn't working anymore.

All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work.

If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work.

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

all lasting change is preceded by changed thinking.

It's not that human beings are resisting. Its that they do not have the capacity to start from a clean sheet of paper.

A paradigm is a constellation of concepts and values shared by a community of people.

One paradigm is shared by the largest community of all: the human race. This is the paradigm that I call the Universal Human Paradigm. It is a "master" paradigm, by which I mean that all other paradigms held by people are subsets of it.

Throughout time, certain consensus beliefs have imprisoned us, kept us from evolving as a species, as individuals.

If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules

to rid the people of their old beliefs and insert new ones.