Top 100 Science Of Change Quotes
#1. History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.
Marc Bloch
#2. The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.
Leslie White
#3. What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind to devote to constructive and peaceful purposes ...
Ralph Barton Perry
#4. Mutants, super beings, gods, aliens, a guy who sticks to walls at one extreme, a creature who eats planets at the other; Each one that comes into being, they feel, diminishes the rest of humanity, ordinary homo sapiens, that little bit more.
Jim Lee
#5. Intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume
an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and a change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them.
John Dewey
#6. If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.
Malcolm Turnbull
#7. One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood
Tim Flannery
#8. The screech of tyres, an almighty bang and a car exploded through the playground wall like a high-velocity bullet through a watermelon.
Kev Heritage
#9. It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science.
Steve King
#10. I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways.
Richard Eyre
#11. If your way is not the way of the science, then your way is not the way! Change it! If your way is not the way of the compassion and love, then your way is not the way! Change it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#12. The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.
Paul Gibbons
#13. Science enables humans to satisfy their needs. It does nothing to change them. They are no different today from what they have always been. There is progress in knowledge, but not in ethics. This s the verdict both of science and history, and the view of every one of the world's religions.
John Gray
#14. This is not rocket science - climate science is very simple. A 12-year-old could probably understand this subject [of climate change].
Arthur B. Robinson
#15. The problem is not lack of competence, it is confidence without competence.
Paul Gibbons
#16. Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.'
Zac Goldsmith
#17. There's an awful lot of hanging around when you're doing science fiction. Going down and waiting for them to set up, being told to go back to your dressing room while they change the track and the lighting and so on.
John Hurt
#18. Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.
Henry W. Kendall
#19. Disease may be defined as 'A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment.
William Thomas Councilman
#20. I have friends who are science journalists, and I'm seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they're pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#21. Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.
Buzz Aldrin
#22. The science and engineering of programming just isn't good enough to produce flawless software, and that isn't going to change anytime soon. The
Bruce Schneier
#23. As long as scepticism is based on a sound understanding of science it is invaluable, for that is how science progresses. But poor criticism can lead those who are unfamiliar with the science involved into doubting everything about climate change predictions.
Tim Flannery
#24. The essence of extended rationality is to know when you are being irrational.
Paul Gibbons
#25. Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.
Isaac Newton
#26. You are who you are because others say that's who you are. You can try to change who you are but it will only change the views of others who think you are what you really aren't.
Anonymous
#27. There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.
Heraclitus
#28. I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.
Robert A. Heinlein
#29. When historian of science Naomi Oreskes surveyed all peer-reviewed papers on climate change published between 1993 and 2003 in the world's leading scientific journal, Science, she found that there were 980 supporting the idea of human-induced global warming and none opposing it.
Donald R. Prothero
#30. Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.
Scott Cunningham
#31. Every vice of the Empire has been repeated in the Foundation. Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no
change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is
theirs.
Isaac Asimov
#32. Science fiction is the very literature of change.
Frederik Pohl
#33. They weren't people that liked change. They were the kind of people that would have tied change to a chair with dental floss if they could in order to avoid it. They were the type of people who desired to live in their virtual bubbles and grew to resent anyone that challenged that world.
Anna M. Aquino
#34. The idea of doing a period movie, some people say, "Isn't it odd that you're doing a period movie? That's a change of pace for you." And, I'm like, "Not really." When you're doing a science fiction movie, it's almost exactly the same.
Paul W. S. Anderson
#35. The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
Pierre Schaeffer
#36. Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.
Ray Bradbury
#37. The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#38. What is the value of libraries? Through lifelong learning, libraries can and do change lives, a point that cannot be overstated.
Michael E. Gorman
#39. To trace the series of these revolutions, to explain their causes, and thus to connect together all the indications of change that are found in the mineral kingdom, is the proper object of a THEORY OF THE EARTH.
John Playfair
#40. Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.
Aristotle.
#41. Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.
Paul Gibbons
#42. Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men. We will change hearts of other men [only] by changing our own hearts and speaking bravely.
Albert Einstein
#43. Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.
Tom Shippey
#44. As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church.
Gregory Benford
#45. When you talk with people, one of the arguments they'll throw back at you is that the climate has always changed, and that is absolutely right. It's the rate of change that is the problem right now. It's changing so quickly that it exceeds the adaptive capacity of some species.
Michael Crimmins
#46. Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing.
Paul Gibbons
#47. This was never what I wanted for us, but things change. Plans change. People change. I've faced the reality of my destiny and now I need to embrace that.
Siobhan Davis
#48. Even thought you can't see it, my son, things are changing. Things ALWAYS change, given enough time and pressure. The very thought of that is scary to some, but change is absolutely nothing to be afraid of. It is a simple fact of life.
EXO Books
#49. Use of analytics is accelerating, and that means more data-driven
decision making and fewer hunches. Evidence-based management
complements analytics by adding validated cause-and-effect relationships
between policies and effects.
Paul Gibbons
#50. There were times he thought he might not want to live the life he saw before him. It was a life of obstacles and hardships - challenges and tests of will he could not yet predict. But he couldn't stop. He had to endure. The path had not changed. It was he who had changed.
Matt K. Turner
#51. Just stamping out anti-science and bad science will eliminate an enormous amount of business waste
Paul Gibbons
#52. Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.
Lynn Margulis
#53. Change happens when we stop looking for off-the-shelf answers to our one-of-a-kind challenges. The authors of Change Anything, The New Science of Personal Success
Gregory Anne Cox
#54. With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.
William Irwin Thompson
#56. In the pursuit of breaking free from all the shackles of man-made bondages, science is the most effective tool we have till this date.
Abhijit Naskar
#57. Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.
Paul Gibbons
#58. Resistance to change should be a thing of the past if we could develop growth mindsets and create organizations with growth cultures.
Paul Gibbons
#59. It takes not a few centuries, or even millenniums, but millions of years for a subtle evolutionary change to become noticeable.
Abhijit Naskar
#60. This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton.
{Referring to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics}
Albert Einstein
#61. IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them.
Stafford Beer
#62. One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any other name, it still smells as sweet. The name doesn't really matter. It is convenient for us.
Frederick Lenz
#63. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
H.G.Wells
#64. Magick" has been defined as the Science and Art of causing change to occur in conformity with Will. By this definition any willed act is a magical act. We are all magicians. We either perform our magick efficiently or inefficiently.
Christopher S. Hyatt
#65. Science is not there for you to cherry pick ... You can decide whether or not to believe in it but that doesn't change the reality of an emergent scientific truth.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#66. Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man's life.
Mary Roach
#67. Business people need to understand the psychology of risk more than the mathematics of risk.
Paul Gibbons
#68. People who appear to be resisting change may simply be the victim of bad habits. Habit, like gravity, never takes a day off.
Paul Gibbons
#69. We have to reach out to churches and schools and help people understand science, and we have to build rapport between scientists and people of faith. Then once we get that understanding and rapport built, then everyone will be on board with climate change.
Katharine Hayhoe
#70. Only in the last few years did the science crystallize, revealing the urgency - our planet really is in peril. If we do not change course soon, we will hand our children a situation that is out of their control.
James Hansen
#71. But what about love, compassion, moral goodness, and self-transcendence? Many people still imagine that religion is the true repository of these virtues. To change this, we must talk about the full range of human experience in a way that is as free of dogma as the best science already is.
Sam Harris
#72. What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science - information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won't.
Archibald MacLeish
#73. Whether ... a change from the supremacy of natural science to a new social science will take place ... depends on one factor: how many brilliant, learned, disciplined, and caring men and women are attracted by the new challenge ...
Erich Fromm
#74. We ourselves are co-called non-linear dynamical systems ... I don't feel quite so pathetic when I interrupt a project to check on some obscure web site or newsgroup or derive an iota of cheer by getting rid of pocketful of change.
John Allen Paulos
#75. Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
A.E. Van Vogt
#76. It was the storm that would forever change the course of human destiny.
Jeff W. Horton
#77. If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn't being political, it is being selfish.
Phil Jones
#78. Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people.
Thomas Jefferson
#79. The Dalai Lama once said that 'If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change!' This is a great thought! And great thoughts belong to great men only!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#80. The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king.
Johann Joachim Becher
#81. The momentary state of science that may change tomorrow ...
Bertrand Russell
#82. The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.
Henry Thomas Buckle
#83. We are intelligent atoms. We are intelligent organic structures. We can change who we are. We can heal ourselves. With genetic engineering, we are considering changing the physiological structure of the body.
Frederick Lenz
#84. Mindfulness promises a great number of desirable benefits, and is based on much more solid research than many competing ideas on how to change people.
Paul Gibbons
#85. Behaviorism was a busted flush, but neo-behaviorist theories, especially choice architecture, achieve behavioral change without coercion or the downsides of carrots and sticks.
Paul Gibbons
#86. They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science.
Karl Pilkington
#87. I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards. When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn't going to change who I was.
Aisha Tyler
#88. On the science of global climate change, I'm an agnostic. I've seen Al Gore's movie, and I've read reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I've also listened to the 'skeptics.' I don't know who's right.
Robert Bryce
#89. The United States will continue its efforts to improve our understanding of climate change - to seek hard data, accurate models, and new ways to improve the science - and determine how best to meet these tremendous challenges.
George H. W. Bush
#90. People have taken advantage of the very well-trodden pathways that divide science and faith on other issues, such as creation, evolution, and the age of the universe, to pigeonhole climate change as yet another variant on the same theme.
Katharine Hayhoe
#91. The goal of science is to understand the fundamental reality and the goal of technology is to change that reality.
Kedar Joshi
#92. The world will not change by our position in the Universe. Actions change when beliefs change; collective actions and beliefs change the world.
Matthew A. Petti
#93. The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.
Paul Gibbons
#94. Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose.
Marla Gibbs
#95. At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which accord their citizens the freedom to pursue the truth where it may lead and which therefore have respect for different paths to that truth.
John Charles Polanyi
#96. Change your mind and change your whole life experience.
C.G. Rousing
#97. The study of magic is not a science, it is not an art, and it is not a religion. Magic is a craft. When we do magic, we do not wish and we do not pray. We rely upon our will and our knowledge and our skill to make a specific change to the world.
Lev Grossman
#98. Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts of science.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#99. Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
David Brin
#100. We study the past history, with the conscience of the present environmental changes; we can only predict the future ecological changes, by emergence of the past into the present.
Lailah Gifty Akita
