Obsolete

Mar. 29th, 2019 12:07 pm
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

—attributed to R. Buckminster Fuller

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Laurel and Hardy, Ariana Grande, or the Salvation Army Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Paradigms

Aug. 23rd, 2017 11:16 am
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

“Science emerged from the Copernican revolution as the winner, the new paradigm, to use Thomas Kuhn’s famous term. But science is wrong if it believes it is the last paradigm or the only one that deserves credence. The nature of new paradigms, as Kuhn wrote, is that they explain more than the previous paradigm.”

—Deepak Chopra, The Huffington Post, October 10, 2005

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Anomalous

Dec. 3rd, 2012 09:49 am
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

 

“Discovery commences with awareness of anomaly, i.e., with the recognition that nature has somehow violated the paradigm-induced expectations that govern normal science.”

—Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

 

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

pjthompson: (lilith)

“I’ve outlived my paradigm, I think,” I said to Jim.  “It’s shifted and I don’t want to go there.”

He nodded sagely and considered.  “The only truly dangerous thing to outlive,” he said, “is your pension.”

Truer words were never spoke.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

pjthompson: (salome)

“I’ve outlived my paradigm, I think,” I said to Jim.  “It’s shifted and I don’t want to go there.”

He nodded sagely and considered.  “The only truly dangerous thing to outlive,” he said, “is your pension.”

Truer words were never spoke.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

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