Paradigm Quotes

“Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.”
― William George Jordan

“The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can't help you anymore. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction.”
― Hugh MacLeod

“History is boring, unless you see it from the right perspective. perspective is important.
Corn growing in a field appears orderless, till one turns the corner and sees the rows line up. a pixelized photo is unrecognizable, till one zooms out. All the the numbers are on a combination lock but it will not open till they are in the right sequence.
So it is with history - all the names, dates and places are there, but it is not until they are seen from the right perspective that lessons become clear. history is boring, until it comes into focus.”
― William J Federer, Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

“You can’t change and be somebody else in the future unless you start becoming a little better at being that future person today.⁣⁣”
― Richie Norton

“Any scientist that wants to change the prevailing paradigm is automatically branded a heretic, apostate, infidel, blasphemer, maverick or lunatic, exactly as happens with religion. The scientist must break with his peers, and have his job, career and funding placed in extreme jeopardy. How many careerist scientists are up for that? The answer is zero. The result is that scientists go on thinking what the establishment and the funding bodies expect them to think, even though they themselves must, deep down, know they are supporting ludicrous claims that make no sense.”
― Thomas Stark, Extra Scientiam Nulla Salus: How Science Undermines Reason

“Some see opportunity where others see work. Some seek opportunity where others seek work.”
― Richie Norton

“Worldviews seem real but they aren’t real. Our worldviews tend to guide our thinking about everything. And then our assumptions come out of those worldviews.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account

“When one person’s worldview differs from the worldview of another person, everything is fine until the two people realize that they aren’t seeing eye to eye. Each thinker will regard anything that clashes with his or her worldview to be insane and in conflict with reality.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account

“Worldviews are fake realities made up of past interpretations. Interpretations aren’t the same as observations, and they aren’t the same as experiences. Interpretations add to the experiences of the past, and what they add is unreliable. What they add ultimately consists of made-up stuff mixed with flawed memories of some things that may or may not have worked in the past.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account

“Nostalgia is an excessive sentimentality for the past, for home. It is associated with a yearning to return to a happy and safe period in your life. The word comes from nóstos, meaning “homecoming”, and álgos, meaning “pain” or “ache”. It’s all about the “good old days”, and “the good times”. Conservatism revolves around nostalgia. All right wingers are nostalgic, and suffer from future shock and future fear. Science is about extreme nostalgia for the material atoms of the ancient Greeks. Materialism is entirely dead in the era of quantum mechanics, yet scientists go on believing in matter anyway. They are highly conservative individuals unwilling to contemplate leaving the home materialism has provided for them. The last thing they want is to end up in the Unknown Land of Mind, where thought, not matter, is core reality. That would ruin everything for the scientific materialists and empiricists.”
― Thomas Stark, Extra Scientiam Nulla Salus: How Science Undermines Reason

“Between concentric pavement ripples glide errant echoes originating from beyond the Puddled Metropolis. Windowless blocks and pickle-shaped monuments demarcate the boundaries of patternistic cycles from those wilds kissed neither by starlight nor moonlight. Lethal underbrush of razor-like excrescence pierces at the skins of night, crawls with hyperactive sprouts and verminous vines that howl with contempt for the wicked fortunes of Marshland Organizers armed with scythes and hoes and flaming torches who have only succeeded in crafting their own folly where once stood something of glorious and generous integrity. There are familiar whispers under leaves perched upon by flapping moths. They implore the spirit again to heed the warnings of the vines and to not be swayed by the hubris of these organizing opportunists. One is to stop moving at frantic zigzags through gridlocked streets, stop climbing ladders altogether, stop relying on drainage pipes where floods should prevail, stop tapping one’s feet in waiting rooms expecting to be seen and examined and acknowledged. Rather, one is to eschew unseemly fabrications and conceal oneself beneath the surface of leaves—perhaps even inside the droplets of dew—one is, after all, to feel shameful of the form, of all forms, and seek instead to merge with whispers which do not shun or excoriate, for they are otherwise occupied in the act of designating meaning. Yet, what meaning stands beyond the rectitude of angles and symmetry, but rather in wilds among agitated insects and resplendent bogs and malicious spiders and rippling mosses pronouncing doom upon their surroundings? One is said to find only the same degree of opportunism, and nothing greatly edifying that could serve to extend beyond the banalities of self-preservation. But no, surely there is something more than this—there absolutely must be something more, and it is to be found! Forget what is said about ‘opportunism’—this is just a word and, thusly, a distraction. The key issue is that there are many such campaigns of contrivance mounted by the taxonomic self-interest of categories and frameworks ‘who’ only seek primacy and authority over their consumers. The ascription of ‘this’ may thusly be ascribed also with that of ‘this other’ and so it cannot be ‘that precisely’ because ‘this’ contradicts another ‘that other’ with which ‘this other’ surely claims affiliation. Certainly, in view of such limiting factors, there is a frustration that one is bound to feel that the answers available are constrained and formulaic and insufficient and that one is simply to accept the way of things as though they are defined by the highest of mathematics and do not beget anything higher. One is, thusly, to cease in one’s quest for unexplored possibility. The lines have been drawn, the contradictions defined and so one cannot expect to go very far with these mathematical rules and boundaries in place. There are ways out: one might assume the value of an imaginary unit and bounce out of any restrictive quadrant as with the errant echoes against the rippling pavement of this Puddled Metropolis. One will then experience something akin to a bounding and rebounding leap—iterative, but with all subleaps constituting a more sweeping trajectory—outward to other landscapes and null landscapes, inward through corridors and toward the centroid of circumcentric chamber clusters, into crevices and trenches between paradigms and over those mountain peaks of abstruse calculation.”
― Ashim Shanker, Inward and Toward

“English: "Everyone sees the world different, even they look on the same system."

Česky: „Každý vidí svět jinak, a přitom se všichni dívají na jedno a to samé.”
― Sebastián Wortys, Wesmírný omyl

“GIFT A TIME...
SEED A MAP...
TURN A KEY...
WHORL A RING...”
― Jonathan McKinney

“While defining the current narrative, we are missing the dawn of a new paradigm”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“Our experiences didn’t form our worldviews; our interpretations did; but how do we interpret our experiences? The problem develops in our interpretations.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account

“Here’s how we interpret our experiences. Assumptions come out of our worldviews, and our worldviews are based on previous interpretations of experiences. This is why one person’s assumptions will often be very different from another person’s assumptions. Worldviews vary from person to person in extreme ways.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account

“Our assumptions and presuppositions filter our perceptions of reality without any conscious effort. Even when we’re trying to be objective, we can’t get outside of ourselves to be unbiased. In addition, we have outside influences that also distort our perceptions of reality.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account

“At the end of all the filtering, we take the distorted perception of reality and add it to our worldviews. Since the worldview created most of the filter in the first place, most of what goes back into the worldview is confirmation bias.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account

“We should also note that a great deal of what is in a worldview isn’t even direct experience. We watch talking heads and videos that shape our worldviews. We read books and watch movies that shape our worldviews. Many other influences work on us, and most of these have been designed to shape our worldviews without our awareness. Our friends also influence us for good or evil. We daydream and rationalize and shape our worldviews that way. Worldviews are fake realities that seem deceptively real. Most of the time, we never question our worldviews but blindly trust them to run our lives. That’s the definition of living a lie.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“Truth is only available through Jesus Christ. Even though assumptions don’t come out of whole cloth, they still consist of made-up stuff.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account

“Scientists see what they want to see, and think what their paradigm requires them to think. The paradigm in which science is conducted dictates the way in which scientists make sense of the supposedly objective data that their experiments generate. A different paradigm would lead to a drastically different understanding and treatment of the same data. This is a fact that scientists have never understood, and refuse to acknowledge. Not a single neuroscientist on earth would ever interpret any data whatsoever as suggesting that the mind is separate from the brain, hence every interpretation already reflects the conclusion – established before a single experiment has been performed – that the brain is the source of the mind. Is that what we call “science”?”
― Thomas Stark, Extra Scientiam Nulla Salus: How Science Undermines Reason

“Empiricists say, “Where’s your evidence?” In fact, our evidence is every piece of evidence ever gathered by science. Our disagreement is not with the evidence, it’s with the interpretation of the evidence. Every scientist interprets the evidence via the Meta Paradigm of empiricism and materialism, leading to wholly bizarre and irrational conclusions. The correct way to interpret the evidence is via rationalism and idealism. When has any scientific experiment ever refuted rationalism and idealism and proved the truth of empiricism and materialism? Scientists are so ignorant and philosophically illiterate that they don’t even realize they are engaged in interpretation rather than factuality.”
― Thomas Stark, God Is Mathematics: The Proofs of the Eternal Existence of Mathematics

“Scientists believe they can trump any opponent by saying, “Where is your physical evidence?” That statement – their reflexive go-to statement – is the core of their fallacy, because it has already excluded all hidden variables, non-observables, and the whole noumenal inside of reality.”
― Thomas Stark, Inside Reality: The Inner View of Existence

“Though it is essential to deliver a product one should never undermine the value of free will, of transforming knowledge into wisdom & exploring newer Artistic Paradigms!”
― Ujjwal Arora, Artistic Paradigm: Changing Limited Perception of Art, Design & Architecture

“English: "The faith has an opinion on everything, the science on things, where there is no better way and the philosophy on the things on that it likes to have one."

Česky: „Víra má názor na vše, věda na to kde není vidět lepší možnost, filosofie na co se jí zlíbí.”
― Sebastián Wortys, Vtiposcifilo-z/s-ofie

“English: "Our whole life is based on some answer to the question of who we are, even if we don't think about it."

Česky: „Celý náš život je založený na nějaké z odpovědí na otázku, kdo jsme, i když o tom nepřemýšlíme.”
― Sebastián Wortys

“Aby podążyć za wytyczonymi przez Poppera ścieżkami naukowej praktyki badawczej, trzeba na samym jej początku dokonać aktu wiary w postaci wyboru paradygmatu. Wiary – ponieważ żadne argumenty empiryczne nie wesprą, ani nie sprzeciwiają się naszej decyzji o przyjęciu bądź odrzuceniu założenia, że rzeczywistość rządzi się zasadami przyczyny i skutku, że jest poznawalna, a nawet że istnieje. Zwolennicy przekonań odmiennych od naszych mają tyle samo dobrych powodów, by przyjmować swoje założenia, a odrzucać te, które przez nas wybraliśmy. Wszystkie te powody trzeba uznać za pozaracjonalne i pozaempiryczne, ponieważ nie potrafimy naukowo badać prawdziwości twierdzeń z tak ogólnego poziomu. Praktyka naukowa zaczyna się o krok później, gdy na fundamentach przyjętych założeń ontologicznych i epistemologicznych budujemy konkretne modele teoretyczne interesujących nas zjawisk, aby następnie poddać je testom empirycznym i w ich wyniku przyjąć, odrzucić lub modyfikować. Mając "ironiczną okoliczność" w pamięci, nie będziemy zapewne skłonni do angażowania się w gorące spory na temat wyższości jakiego konkretnego paradygmatu, np. ilościowego, nad innym, np. jakościowym – lub odwrotnie. Nie ma tak wielkiego znaczenia, który zestaw założeń i kryteriów poprawności metodologicznej przyjmiemy za swój. Tym, co odróżnia praktykę naukową od pozanaukowych form budowania wiedzy, jest bezdyskusyjne trzymanie się przyjętego (w ramach wybranego paradygmatu) rygoru metodologicznego i pokora wobec empirii. Warunki te spełnia zarówno podejście jakościowe, jak i ilościowe, a także kilka innych paradygmatów, w których rozróżnienie to nie jest tak istotne. Możemy wybierać z wielkiej różnorodności metod, systemów teoretycznych i paradygmatów, jakie mamy dziś do dyspozycji.”
― stemplewska-żakowicz

“Even a circle has two sides, an inside and an outside”
― Aegelis, Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light

“The human brain and the past paradigm that has been so prevalent on Earth has set up many systems of behavior meant to continue to support enough cooperation to allow for survival…and just enough fear to continue perpetuating the idea that there is something to survive from.
Indeed, in order to have a friend, there must be a foe. In order for one to feel rich, others have to be poor. And in this paradigm of striking contrasts, it is important for you to decide on the specific identifications which make one person one thing and another person the other.”
― Gwen Juvenal, Our New Story: Guides in the Garden Volume 1

“Some thought I was a genius, others thought I was a fool. What is the truth? The truth is I am foolish compared to God, but He loves me anyway.”
― Aegelis, Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light