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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether business will survive at all in the face of social change.

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is, different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.

Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long.

Ducking for apples; change one letter and it is the story of my life.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen.

In ecology, as in economics, TANSTAAFL(There Are No Such Thing As A Free Lunch) is intended to warn that every gain is won at some cost. Failure to recognize the no free lunch law causes the buffalo hunter mentality syndrome the unthinking assumption that there will always be plenty because there always has been plenty.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith. (Decision against Galileo)

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Change is one thing, progress is another. ?Change? is scientific, ?progress? is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth.