Change Quote by Kim Edwards

“The pale stars were sliding into their places. The whispering of the leaves was almost hushed. All about them it was still and shadowy…

— Olivia Howard Dunbar

What we see in history is not a transformation, a passing of one race into another, but entirely new and perfect creations, which the…

— Adolf Bastian

“Physical vision - one might say scientific vision - brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer's view of reality as a whole. The…

— Richard Holmes

“Science fiction writers construct an imaginary future; historians attempt to reconstruct the past. Ultimately, both are seeking to understand the present. In this essay,…

— Naomi Oreskes

“The Scientific Revolution had revealed that everyday experience is a narrow slice of a vast continuum of scales from the microscopic to the astronomical,…

— Steven Pinker

“The rise of placelessness, on top of the sense that the whole planet is now minutely known and surveilled, has given this dissatisfaction a…

— Alastair Bonnett

“The world had reclaimed its own reality, and, just like after a catastrophe, my culture had ended: I was merely a historical fact. Everything…

— Clarice Lispector

“It was one of those dewy, clear, starry nights, oppressing our spirit, crushing our pride, by the brilliant evidence of the awful loneliness, of…

— Joseph Conrad

Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos…

— Lewis Mumford

“Later, I would come to think of those first days as the time when we learned as a species that we had worried over…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“A step lower and strangeness creeps in: perceiving that the world is "dense", sensing to what a degree a stone is foreign and irreducible…

— Albert Camus

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of…

— Hans Kung