It Takes Only One Independent and Effective Rational Mind
It takes only one independent and effective rational mind to change the paradigms of understanding for the rest of humankind.
Intellectual Reference Point Restoration
Topic: “Paradigm”
🔎 Lexicon containing “Paradigm”
Definitions and explanations of key terms used throughout the site.
Paradigm
A model or framework that shapes understanding and interpretation within a field of thought.
💬 Quote Library — containing “Paradigm”
To Change Something, Build a New Model
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
📖 Excerpts Library
Human Beings Literally Lost the Ground of Their View
There are people who regard the deed of Copernicus as the biggest of the cultural revolutions which humanity has ever experienced as far as the historical memory reaches. One has to admit that the impression and the influence of this...
A Radical Change to Astronomy and Cosmology
The years when Jesuits established their first schools coincided with the beginning of the so-called scientific revolution and the origin of modern science. In 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus had published his book, De revolutionibus orbium celestium, in which he proposed the...
Source: Jesuit Contribution to Science by Agustín Udías
The Greatest Change in the Mind of Man Since the Dawn of Creation
It may be postulated that this single bit of physical awareness brought about the greatest change in the mind of man since the dawn of creation. Before Magellan's time, mankind had simply accepted as self-evident the fact that there was...
Source: JFK by L. Fletcher Prouty
It Just Seemed So Utterly Obvious That the Sun Revolved Round a Static Earth
Egocentric attitudes may have been a contributory factor behind the dominance of the geocentric world-view, but there were other reasons for preferring an Earth-centred universe to Aristarchus’ Sun-centred universe. One basic problem with the Sun-centred world-view was that it appeared...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
A New Idea Disturbs the Existing Stock of Ideas
Thus, we may say that a new idea disturbs the existing stock of ideas and distorts the accepted frame of reference. In our endeavor to restore the former coherence and balance, to remedy the disturbing situation, we are compelled to...
Source: Nature and Human Nature by Lawrence K. Frank
Four Great Problems
Four great problems that men at all times have had to face need new interpretation, in his opinion. These are: 1. How the universe arose or was created, how it operates, who or what makes things happen and why. 2....
A New Way of Looking at the Universe
A NEW way of looking at the universe and man's place in it was urged upon the scientific world by Lawrence K. Frank, of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, New York, before the American Association for the Advancement of Science....
🎼 Song Excerpts
I Know It’s Only in My Head
She says, "It's only in my head." She says, "Shh, I know it's only in my head."
It’s My Own Design, It’s My Own Remorse
It's my own design It's my own remorse
You’re Falling out of Reach, Defying Gravity
You're falling out of reach - Defying gravity - I know you're out there, somewhere out there
I’ve Built My Life Around You
Well, I've been afraid of changin', 'cause I've built my life around you
