Change Quotes

"New discoveries force us to revise our understanding of the past."

"Nothing is lost, everything is transformed."

"What is significant is not the change of attitude in this or that individual, but rather the change which has taken place in scientific thought as a whole."

"In every act of creation, there is both destruction and renewal."

"Change in our understanding of mathematics is change in our understanding of ourselves."

"Truth in mathematics is not eternal; it evolves as we evolve."

"Mathematical understanding is not something we possess; it is something we become."

"The act of mathematical understanding transforms both the knower and the known."

"Tradition is a great teacher, but it can also become a great tyrant."

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

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

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."

"The pure conservative is fighting against the essence of the universe."

"Man is condemned to change; to be content with the present is to cease developing."

"Progress is the movement from comfortable certainty to difficult truth."

"Symmetry breaking explains how order emerges from uniformity."

"The real numbers are not a completed infinite totality but a process of becoming."

"The task of mathematics is to recognize permanent patterns even amid perpetual change."

"To transform the world, we must first transform our understanding of it."

"Progress requires us to transcend our limitations."

"The secret of progress is the rate of failure among new experiments."

"Habits are the building blocks of civilization and the chains of progress."

"To be alive is to be in constant motion, to stop is to calcify."

"Every moment is a choice between growth and stagnation."

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."

"Each occasion arises from an interplay between novelty and conformity."

"The future belongs to those who can hold two contradictory ideas in mind simultaneously."

"The possibility of machines thinking will have to be accepted."