Quotes About Paradigm

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

Our perception of reality is cultural & changing cultural views change reality.

The most disruptive paradigm shifts often emerge from the fringes, challenging the status quo with new and unconventional ideas.

The ongoing paradigm shift reminds us that what we think we know is always subject to revision, and that true progress requires a willingness to challenge and evolve our beliefs.

That humans are not at the centre of things. You know, the planet is in orbit around the sun. That was a fucking hilarious joke in the 1500s, but Copernicus wasn't a comedian. He was, apparently, the least funny man of the whole Renaissance. He made Raphael look like Richard Pryor. But he was telling the fucking truth.

Because if you believe in them as fact, you are saying the thing that every unpopular scientific breakthrough in history has said." "Which is what?" "That humans are not at the center of things.

When the Crossfire paradigm loses its force, all that's left is a bunch of people with different views all sitting together in a room, wondering why they're all paying three bucks a gallon for gas, why they have no health insurance, why their tax rates are higher than Warren Buffet's. If we're all equally a bunch of suckers, how could any of us be worth hating?

The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. —ALBERT EINSTEIN I

The elephants we have seen taunted and tormented and slaughtered by the likes of Safari Club do not have time to wait while the world's ethicists work out some centuries-long paradigm shift in moral thought.

Breakthroughs occur not when someone works within the established paradigm but when assumptions are abandoned, rules are ignored, and creativity runs amok

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents . . . Its opponents gradually die out and the growing generation is familiar with the idea from the beginning.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Science advances one funeral at a time.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

Some PR professionals have been slow to grasp the scope of the paradigm shift brought by the social media revolution in our industry. Many who have grasped it have been slow to keep up-to-date with it.

Ideas are changed, not by will, but by other ideas

Their fierce response was a classic example of what is known as the "Semmelweis reflex"—the reflexive rejection of new paradigms in medicine

All truths can be changed! Put this brave idea to the centre of your beliefs! All truths can be changed!

It is difficult to think outside the box because the thinking IS the box.