#paradigm

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#arch #born #decline #into #living

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ↗

— Max Planck

#science #science

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#consciousness #crisis #current #dominance #global

Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#communicate #different #existence #hardly #intrinsic

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#find #i #just #just one #languages

Search as a paradigm will continue to be probably even increasingly important because the information that's out there is only going to grow exponentially - and the only way to sort through all that is by some form of search. ↗

— David Filo

#continue #even #exponentially #form #going

You can't change the fruit without changing the root. ↗

— Dr. Stephen R. Covey

#self-help #change

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

#embraces #interpreter #lenses #like #man

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility. ↗

— James Gleick

#chaos-theory #life #mathematics #paradigm #paradigm-shift

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy. ↗