Change Quotes

"The progress of science depends on our willingness to abandon cherished beliefs when evidence demands it."

"Every scientific law is provisional, waiting for the evidence that might overturn it."

"Progress in understanding requires us to abandon comfortable beliefs for uncomfortable truths."

"Science progresses through the creative destruction of inadequate theories."

"Dogmatism is the enemy of progress; flexibility is its friend."

"Progress is messy; it is filled with contradictions, abandoned paths, and unexpected turns."

"What we believe we know today may well be abandoned tomorrow - and that is progress."

"What appears obvious to one generation may seem absurd to the next."

"Progress in understanding requires questioning what we take for granted."

"The growth of understanding involves periodic revisions of our most fundamental assumptions."

"We are not going to be able to solve the problems of the world by making incremental changes to our institutions."

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned to have the life we are meant to have."

"Change can only occur when deep understanding of the problem takes place."

"To make progress, we sometimes must embrace irrationality."

"Progress requires the willingness to abandon cherished beliefs."

"To change the world, one must first change one's way of thinking about it."

"Revolutionary changes in science need not destroy past achievements."

"Scientific revolutions need not involve objects that have changed. What must change is the scientist's conception of those objects."

"The presence of crises, the recourse to extraordinary measures, all these changes of gear performed by the community, are characteristically associated with periods in which paradigm shift occurs."

"What is the mechanism by which a new paradigm finally supplants its predecessor?"

"Kuhnian revolutions are not metaphorical but literal overturnings of conceptual worlds."

"Conceptual revolutions often seem sudden because what changes is not so much the data as the way in which the data is interpreted."

"The shift from one paradigm to another is not cumulative but revolutionary."

"The transition from one paradigm to another cannot be made a step at a time, forced by logic and neutral experience."

"The crisis stage in science is when old theories fail but no new consensus has yet emerged."

"Revolutionary science occurs when the problems that emerge cannot be solved by normal scientific means."

"A crisis in science arises when accumulated anomalies challenge the adequacy of existing theory."

"What makes a scientific revolution truly revolutionary is not just that old theories are rejected but that new ones seem to violate previous logic."

"The future belongs to those who question the present"

"Every theory contains the seeds of its own destruction. This is not weakness; it is the condition of progress."