Long Quote by Werner Heisenberg

It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind…

— Grace Lee Boggs

The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the…

— Freeman Dyson

Our culture teaches us that making significant changes takes a long time and is difficult to do. This is simply NOT true. Change happens…

— Tony Robbins

With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

— Eric Kandel

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

— Ernst Mayr

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both successive and…

— Michel Foucault

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

— Sydney Brenner

Progress in science occurs in fits and starts, and paradigm shifts occur when evidence can be marshaled to support a new point of view.

— Priyamvada Natarajan

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories…

— Dean Ornish

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuos development of new concepts.

— James Bryant Conant