Change Quotes

"Change happens by doing. You have to actually get your hands dirty."

"Small actions, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world."

"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."

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing opponents and making them see the light, but because opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up with it."

"A genuine revolution in science always disturbs the equilibrium of existing knowledge."

"Punctuated equilibrium suggests that stability is the norm, not the exception."

"Constraint is not merely limitation but a source of evolutionary innovation."

"Contingency means that small changes early on can lead to vastly different outcomes."

"We cannot return to some previous state of nature because nature is always changing."

"The change from the absolute to the relative theory is the most profound revolution in human thinking."

"The first step towards improvement is to realize there is an improvement to be made."

"A person can change their thoughts, because they can choose what to think about."

"Science is a wonderful thing because it is alive, always growing, always changing."

"In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown open."

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

"Change happens when enough individuals care enough to make it happen."

"We cannot save the environment unless we change the way we live."

"We are damaging the Earth at an alarming rate, but it is not too late to change."

"Change begins when we stop accepting the way things are and imagine how they could be."

"The strength of any civilization rests on its ability to adapt."

"Every moment contains the seed of change."

"Do not let the future be held hostage by the past."

"I am convinced that the present system is wrong."

"I maintain that the present system has completely failed."

"The capacity to change is the capacity to survive."

"You must be able to grow and be continually improving yourself, not resting on past laurels."

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

"The variations which we regard as individual differences are of the highest importance for us."