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