Paradigm Change Quotes

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Change your thinking, and you will change your life.

I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.

The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists adopt new instruments and look in new places. even more important, during revolutions, scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments in places they have looked before. It is rather as if the professional community had been suddenly transported to another planet where familiar objects are seen in a different light and are joined by unfamiliar ones as well.

Freud is finished, Einstein's next.

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country.

Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.

Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.

Changing quadrants is often a change at the core of who you are, how you think, and how you look at the world. The change is easier for some people than for others simply because some people welcome change and others fight it.

Progress in science occurs in fits and starts, and paradigm shifts occur when evidence can be marshaled to support a new point of view.

If we knew we were not alone in the universe it would have a very, very deep impact on our worldview, on our understanding of our place in the universe.

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

When the basic status of a theory is clear, and all that needs to be cleared are details, you can collaborate. But if the main structure of a hypothesis isn't established, and you want to change the paradigm - like it was the case in the 1960s - it's better to work alone.

nothing happens in August - except when something really happens in August. World War I began in August, Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait began in August, al Qaida was preparing to bring down the World Trade Center in August. August, in other words, is the time when all of us should prepare our backup plans, chart our reversals of course, [and] think through possible paradigm changes.

When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

The transition between competing paradigms cannot be made a step at a time, forced by logic and neutral experience. Like the gestalt switch, it must occur all at once (though not necessarily in an instant) or not at all.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity. As such, it is a direct descendant of the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

Certainly science has moved forward. But when science progresses, it often opens vaster mysteries to our gaze. Moreover, science frequently discovers that it must abandon or modify what it once believed. Sometimes it ends by accepting what it has previously scorned.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

I'm most interested in that moment when my entire perspective changes, and I have to reconsider everything.