Change Quotes

"Prosperity breeds complacency, and complacency breeds decline."

"Change is inevitable; the question is whether we adapt or resist."

"Change without purpose is merely chaos."

"Language change is constant; linguistic purism is a losing battle."

"We must revise our conceptual schemes when experience demands it."

"We must learn to recognize the symptoms of dying paradigms."

"Crisis alone is not usually sufficient to induce the adoption of a new paradigm."

"Each new theory, in some degree, emerges from the old, and must find ways to accommodate most of what went before."

"The crisis-to-revolution transition is not, however, something that can be made inevitable by any act of will."

"The transition from one paradigm to another cannot be made a step at a time."

"A scientist who experiences an anomaly in his work is already in crisis."

"A new paradigm often seems less elegant than the old, at least at first."

"The transition between paradigms is always a matter of some controversy."

"Anomalies are the harbingers of paradigm shift."

"A scientist may experience profound alienation when confronted with an anomaly that threatens his paradigm."

"Paradigm shifts are accompanied by resistance from the scientific establishment."

"Revolutionary periods are times of great anxiety and intellectual ferment in science."

"The accumulation of anomalies creates the conditions for revolution."

"A crisis in science is the prelude to a breakthrough."

"Progress takes place by the improvement of traditions."

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change."

"Certainty is the enemy of progress."

"In any society, those who benefit from injustice will resist change most fiercely."

"We are shaped by the systems we live within, yet we can also transform them."

"Institutional change is slow because institutions are designed to resist it."

"Change is constant, but structures persist longer than we expect."

"Change follows patterns even when it feels revolutionary in the moment."

"Progress requires the willingness to question everything, including our most cherished beliefs."

"To change society, we must first change how we think about society."

"Progress is possible only when we question the very categories through which we think."