Change Quote by J. Robert Oppenheimer

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

— Wendell Berry

“Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong.”

— Thomas S. Kuhn

The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of by us,…

— John Ruskin

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

— Herbert Spencer

“This kind of incrementalism leads to irrelevance over time, especially in technology, because change tends to be revolutionary not evolutionary.”

— Eric Schmidt

“So much science has at its root the ability to see afresh what has been seen and thought to be understood for centuries.”

— Diane Setterfield

Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new…

— James Bryant Conant

“Our ability to see the impact of changes before we make them is an important part of being human. Every new discovery…. is the…

— David Sturt

Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.

— Robert Genn

Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

— Herbert Simon

“technological change is not additive; it is ecological. A new technology does not merely add something; it changes everything”.”

— Neil Postman

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

— Thomas Kuhn