Quotes About Flexibility

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise.

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.

There's no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.

I'm a great believer in life to saying yes and not saying no, and hopefully making people smile and just having fun in life.

The process of democracy is one of change. Our laws are not frozen into immutable form, they are constantly in the process of revision in response to the needs of a changing society.

The only rule is that there are no rules.

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

a young American with a moderate level of education expects to change jobs at least eleven times during his or her working life – and the pace and frequency of change are almost certain to go on growing before the working life of the present generation is over.