#evolutions

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#after #another #arrogance #centrality #common

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#retrospect #revolutions #see #something #you

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#done #fashions #harm #more #revolutions

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#been #called #handled #human #human race