Quotes About Paradigm

Everything changed after AIDS," Dr. Molnár had just explained to him. "From then on, blood was more dangerous than shit.

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it – in a decade, a century, or a millennium – we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise?

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

The old paradigm taught that if you had the right teaching, you will experience God. The new paradigm says that if you experience God, you will have the right teaching.

The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.

I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.

Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.

When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.

The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.

Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes.

The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.

History tends to change people who think they're changing it.

Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!

I hope I'm not implying role of contemporary poet for myself, although there's a kind of resonant paradigm. It's traditionally a difficult role.

I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity.

The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.

The prank is entitled "Subverting the Patriarchal Paradigm".

Paradigm shift: does that come before swing shift or after?

Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.

If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.