Change Quotes

Nothing stays the same. These quotes explore transformation, growth, and the courage to start over.

27059 quotes

"We stand at the threshold of understanding or destruction."
Rachel Carson
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"Change is inevitable and necessary for growth."
Linus Pauling
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"Change brings new possibilities."
Linus Pauling
"You must be prepared to revise everything you think you know."
Barbara McClintock
"Change is inevitable, so we might as well guide it in positive directions."
Hedy Lamarr
"The world changes one idea at a time."
Hedy Lamarr
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"Nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes."
Enrico Fermi
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"Change is the only constant in life."
Enrico Fermi
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"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."
Enrico Fermi
"The garden taught me that change is not chaotic but ordered by invisible laws."
Gregor Mendel
"Growth, whether in plants or in understanding, requires the right conditions and patient tending."
Gregor Mendel
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"The present structure of the atom must be changed."
Ernest Rutherford
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"Man might discover that he was capable of changing the world."
Linus Pauling
"Change is the only constant in the world of invention and progress."
Alexander Graham Bell
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"Every breakthrough in science begins with someone willing to doubt conventional wisdom."
Dorothy Hodgkin
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"The laboratory requires both rigor and flexibility; one must be prepared to change course when the data demands it."
Dorothy Hodgkin
"Nature is constantly changing, and the scientist must be willing to change their thinking with it."
Barbara McClintock
"The discovery of genetic transposition changed everything I thought I knew."
Barbara McClintock
"I have always been more interested in the future than in dwelling on the past."
Hedy Lamarr
"The world changes fastest when we dare to be unconventional."
Hedy Lamarr
"Change is constant; the only question is whether you'll lead it or lag behind it."
Hedy Lamarr
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"Change is the only constant, and those who resist it resist life itself."
Enrico Fermi
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"Change is inevitable; growth is intentional."
Linus Pauling
L
"We must embrace change to grow and evolve."
Linus Pauling
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"I do not believe that any discovery of mine has wrought such change in the world as the discoveries of radium and of atomic energy."
Ernest Rutherford
E
"To make progress, one must sometimes abandon the comfortable certainties of the past."
Ernest Rutherford
"Flexibility in thinking allowed me to see patterns that rigid minds would never notice."
Barbara McClintock
"Change in biology happens slowly, and so must our understanding of it."
Barbara McClintock
"The ability to change your mind in the face of new evidence is the mark of a true scientist."
Barbara McClintock
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"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 ideas from the beginning."
Max Planck