Quotes About Paradigm Shifts

#1. New questions can produce new scientific leaps. They can tiddlywink new flips of insight and understanding. Big ones. Paradigm shifts.

Howard Bloom

#2. Did you know that Judaism is based on paradigm shifts, Henry? First came Abraham, then came Moses. Then came the prophets, then came the rabbis. Pretty amazing stuff. Each iteration, reaching for the godhead. What comes next, Henry? What comes next?

Michael Davidow

#3. Instead, his training is designed to help my mind adapt to paradigm shifts. For instance, if a fish has 3,453 scales on its left side and 3,453 on its right side, which side of the fish has the most scales? The

Pierce Brown

#4. Paradigm shifts aren't always obvious when you're in the middle of one. Danny Kennedy makes a compelling case for why solar power is the crucial energy technology of the 21st century.

Michael Brune

#5. The mantra of the new historicists was "we have betrayed ourselves." Since their emergence, there have been more or less interesting paradigm shifts having mainly to do with Habermas and the increased focus on media studies, but the talismanic word has never ceased to be "history."

Paul Fry

#6. Tugs was surprised to find that the cake was actually pretty dry and not as good as the cakes her own mother made. It was a revelation. Tugs had assumed that tastier food came out of fancier houses.

Anne Ylvisaker

#7. Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

George Scialabba

#8. Because it demands large-scale paradigm destruction and major shifts in the problems and techniques of normal science, the emergence of new theories is generally preceded by a period of pronounced professional insecurity.

Thomas S. Kuhn

#9. The truth we make for ourselves is just the sum of what is in someone's interest, balanced by the power they hold.

Jo Nesbo

#10. If a religious principle is worth anything, it applies to a million of human beings as truly as to one; and the difficulty of insisting on its wider application does not furnish any proof that it ought not to be so applied.

Henry Parry Liddon

#11. Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else.

Nancy Lopez

#12. I will build you a castle with a tower so high it reaches the moon.

Smokey Robinson