Change Quotes

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

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"On the other hand, the great changes now occurring in the techniques of production will be accompanied by a transformation of the cultural and social superstructure."
Max Planck
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"Change is the law of life."
Niels Bohr
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"We must learn to think in new ways to solve new problems."
Linus Pauling
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"The difficulty of quantum mechanics lies not in the difficulty of the theory itself, but in the difficulty of abandoning old modes of thought."
Werner Heisenberg
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"The most important thing is the willingness to think new thoughts and to do new things."
Werner Heisenberg
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"Certainty is the enemy of progress."
Ernest Rutherford
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"Change is not something to resist; it is the only constant through which we grow."
Ernest Rutherford
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"It is the tension between different ideas that drives progress in science and in life."
Enrico Fermi
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"To change the world, you must first change the way you think about the world."
Enrico Fermi
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"Probably the greatest change has come in our scientific thought."
Rosalind Franklin
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"The path of progress is never straight and narrow."
Rosalind Franklin
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"I have always felt that the most important discoveries are those that change how we see."
Dorothy Hodgkin
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"We must be prepared to undergo profound changes."
Niels Bohr
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"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
Max Planck
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"Evolution is a process of constant expansion and increasing complexity."
Stephen Jay Gould
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"Evolution is neither progressive nor regressive but simply change over time."
Stephen Jay Gould
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"Evolution demonstrates that change is the only constant in nature."
Stephen Jay Gould
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"The history of life teaches us that change is inevitable and constant."
Stephen Jay Gould
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"Progress is made by questioning everything."
Enrico Fermi
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"Change is the only constant."
Enrico Fermi
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"The greatest obstacle to progress is often our own preconceived notions."
Ernest Rutherford
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"Progress depends upon our willingness to abandon comfortable assumptions."
Ernest Rutherford
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"The path to discovery is littered with abandoned hypotheses and refined understandings."
Ernest Rutherford
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"Scientific advancement requires an openness to ideas that contradict conventional wisdom."
Ernest Rutherford
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"Changes in the concept of reality are changes in the concept of what is real."
Werner Heisenberg
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"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
Werner Heisenberg
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"I believe that the present phase of human society cannot continue without a new kind of man."
Werner Heisenberg
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"The atoms are permanent, but their arrangement is constantly changing."
Werner Heisenberg
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"We must abandon the classical notion that nature operates according to predetermined laws."
Werner Heisenberg
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"We are biochemically programmed to reject things too different or too strange."
Carl Sagan