Change Quotes

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

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"Progress demands not just new ideas, but the death of old ones."
Lakatos, Imre
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"A mind that has stopped questioning has stopped growing."
Lakatos, Imre
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"Every problem solved creates new problems; this is the nature of progress."
Lakatos, Imre
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"Progress in understanding requires the death of certainty."
Lakatos, Imre
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"Reality is a process of continuous creation and dissolution."
Bohm, David
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"The mind that is always seeking certainty cannot perceive what is new."
Bohm, David
"Progress is a myth we tell ourselves to feel better about our chaos."
Feyerabend, Paul
"Every paradigm contains within it the seeds of its own destruction."
Feyerabend, Paul
"To change the world, we must first change our stories about the world."
Feyerabend, Paul
"The greatest revolution is not in methods but in the questions we dare to ask."
Feyerabend, Paul
"Progress requires not just new ideas, but the demolition of old certainties."
Feyerabend, Paul
"To change society, we must first change what we consider thinkable."
Feyerabend, Paul
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"Certainty is the enemy of discovery."
Bell, John Stewart
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"A good theory should make you uncomfortable with your previous certainties."
Bell, John Stewart
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"Paradigms are not overturned by evidence alone, but by the conviction of those who see differently."
Kuhn, Thomas
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"We become trapped by our own success in defending established theories."
Kuhn, Thomas
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"Revolutionary science emerges when the costs of defending a paradigm exceed the costs of abandoning it."
Kuhn, Thomas
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"Paradigm wars cannot be won by evidence alone; they are decided by conversion and time."
Kuhn, Thomas
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"Scientific revolutions are moments when the entire map must be redrawn."
Kuhn, Thomas
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"You are under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago."
Feynman, Richard
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"We cannot change what we are, only what we become."
Feynman, Richard
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"Every decision you make spawns a world where you made the opposite choice."
Everett, Hugh
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"To change the world, you must first change your way of thinking."
Bohm, David
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"The future is not predetermined; it emerges from the present moment."
Bohm, David
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"When you stop resisting change, you become one with the flow of life."
Bohm, David
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"To change behavior, you must first change the consciousness that produced it."
Bohm, David
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"To create anything meaningful, you must be willing to destroy what no longer serves."
Bohm, David
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"We must give up the conventional notion that the evolution of the system is continuous."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Scientific revolutions are not extensions of normal science but ruptures with it."
Kuhn, Thomas