Paradigms Quotes

“We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.”
― Charles Eisenstein

“IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them.”
― Stafford Beer

“O progresso da ciência, tal como uma antiga trilha no deserto, está juncado pelos descolorados esqueletos de teorias rejeitadas, que um dia pareceram ter vida eterna.”
― Arthur Koestler, The Ghost in the Machine

“It is a single paradigm, and single paradigms, no matter how helpful in and of themselves, can be dangerous. They become the thing they are supposed to represent in the mind of the believer. In religion, it is known as idolatry, worshipping the statue that is merely the representation of the real. Most people only give themselves so much to a single point of view, whether they admit it to themselves or not. To believe, to truly believe, is to do. When one accepts a single paradigm, he becomes a true believer. There is nothing quite so rare…or so dangerous.”
― James Rozoff, Perchance to Dream

“The stupid always think I am arrogant and lucky. That is the exact mindset that keeps them in the darkness. They can't see that consistent and continuous success in life is composed of an intimate relation between values and paradigms. And they have no clue in what regards noble values and efficient paradigms. They can't identify good and efficient. Their evaluations are poor. And their poor mindset keeps them stupid.”
― Robin Sacredfire

“There is yet one leverage point that is even higher than changing a paradigm. That is to keep oneself unattached in the arena of paradigms, to stay flexible, to realize that no paradigm is “true,” that every one, including the one that sweetly shapes your own worldview, is a tremendously limited understanding of an immense and amazing universe that is far beyond human comprehension. It is to "get" at a gut level the paradigm that there are paradigms, and to see that that itself is a paradigm, and to regard that whole realization as devastatingly funny.”
― Donella H. Meadows, Thinking In Systems: A Primer

“I'm considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms.”
― Ryan Lilly

“As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice – there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not only the impact of nature and of logic, but also the techniques of persuasive argumentation effective within the quite special groups that constitute the community of scientists.”
― Thomas S. Kuhn

“When we look ahead to 2018, we should expect big steps forward in science to come once again from changes in style rather than from marginal improvements in technology.”
― Freeman Dyson, From Eros to Gaia

“The most significant obstacles for #DigitalLeadership are paradigms and behaviors.”
― @rodrigolobos

“We should not be aiming for weeks of improved survival. Our goals should be higher. The public needs to see how far we have drifted from the original aims as oncologists and researchers and at what cost to the patient.”
― Azra Raza, The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last

“One of the greatest contributions to science was provided by Thomas Kuhn in his incendiary book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. He punctured any number of scientific delusions about the logic and coherence of science. Kuhn, crucially, presented science not as an objective method but as a subjective paradigm that never seriously questions itself – except when it is falling apart and has no choice – and thus bears a strong resemblance to a religion. It is ineradicably infected with groupthink, conformism, observer bias and conformation bias.”
― Thomas Stark, Extra Scientiam Nulla Salus: How Science Undermines Reason

“Experiments are never used to generate new paradigms, but to provide data to be interpreted by the current prevailing data, the “establishment” paradigm. Scientists claim to support a falsification principle, and to strenuously attempt to falsify their theories. This is the uttermost self-delusion. Scientists in fact go to tremendous lengths to defend their paradigm against falsification, and to deny that any falsification has taken place even when the data is unambiguous that it has. Scientists will simply reinterpret the results of any inconvenient experiments to explain away any anomalies, or they will add ad hoc hypotheses to bolster existing theories rather than discard those theories.”
― Thomas Stark, Extra Scientiam Nulla Salus: How Science Undermines Reason

“Everything Sam Harris says comes from the empiricist, materialist, atheistic, scientific perspective. Therefore, every single conclusion he arrives at can be completely reinterpreted from a rationalist, idealist, religious, spiritual, mathematical perspective. Absolutely nothing he says about ultimate reality is true. That’s what happens when you’re a Sophist rather than a Philosopher.”
― Mike Hockney, The Sam Harris Delusion

“The entire basis of science is to find ways to deny meaning. What is Darwinism? It’s how to replace a designed universe with a random, purposeless universe that evolves to no end. What is the Multiverse? It’s a way to avoid explaining this universe by asserting that every random universe is possible. What is indeterministic “wavefunction collapse”? It’s a way to avoid explaining causation and determinism. What is the claim that free will is illusory? It’s a way to avoid explaining subjective agency, avoid explaining the autonomous mind – the soul. There are no “innocent” theories in science. All of them are ideologically, dogmatically, paradigmatically designed to deny idealism, rationalism and any hint of religion. There is not a single scientific theory that is not wholly predicated on the denial of idealism, rationalism and religion. You would not be allowed to be a scientist if you ever openly advanced any idealist, rationalist or religious arguments. If you did, you would be fired, or marginalised, or called a crank. Your funding would definitely be cut.”
― Mike Hockney, The Sam Harris Delusion

“A dead man walking out of a tomb utterly obliterates all of our tediously constructed paradigms about life. And in pondering what God did that morning, maybe we need to ask if our paradigms are, in fact, the very tombs that you and I need to walk out of.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A lot of the value attracted comes in the form of people, ideas, and opportunities. We live on a very limiting planet, a prison planet, that also chains us to our genes and thoughts. It requires effort to go beyond all that. And also here people fail when choosing to compete against others rather than their old self - the outdated paradigms. As you grow older, this process gets harder, unless you have accumulated wisdom. A lot of the paradigms we are brainwashed with start at birth, which is why so many people today feel like they are at war with each other. What they see is real, and so they play this game called life, not according to their rules but the rules of others.”
― Dan Desmarques

“When scientists work within a paradigm, they are working within a limited view of the world that accommodates most of the observations done till that stage.

A paradigm is an incomplete model – a simplified and approximated version of reality, or a projection onto a plane that has a few variables approximated away."

(The Fuzzy Truth of Science [The Follies: Dark Outcomes]. Fuzzy on the Dark Side)”
― Ahmad Hijazi, Fuzzy on the Dark Side: Approximate Thinking, and How the Mists of Creativity and Progress Can Become a Prison of Illusion

“The lens can act in many different ways and lenses can be stacked on top of each other in order to produce varying types of views. Take the fish-eye lens as an example. The glass on the lens is shaped in a certain way in order for the light to enter and produce a certain kind of distorted view.
We all are born with a lens, but usually we get to kind of start at ground zero in the process of beginning to understand, use, and interpret what this physical reality is. As our eyes open and we start to interface with this new reality, we form connections and synapses within our brain for interpretation and use of this new tool that we have. And much of this develops through the guidance or non-guidance of those caring for us. So much starts to become ingrained, and even in some cases we can borrow other people’s lenses in order to feel safe in the world. Sometimes the layers and layers can become quite complex. How many of you feel that anything you come in contact with gets to be translated through a menagerie of different thoughts, ideas, and histories before it fully gets seen?”
― Gwen Juvenal, Our New Story: Guides in the Garden Volume 1

“Most of us have no idea of the assumptions and beliefs we use to create or perceptions. We think we're open-minded and curious when, in fact, we all suffer from "paradigm blindness.”
― Margaret Wheatley, Leadership and the New Science