#evolutions

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#chiefly #come #eliot #history #i

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#cannot #change #enough #fabric #quickly

If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#certainly #experience #many #revolutions #science

Revolutions are always verbose. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#revolutions

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions. ↗

— Saul Steinberg

#artist #artists #best #educator #evolutions

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#already #century #experienced #i #known

I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#body #evolutions #fascinated #human #human body

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge. ↗

— Francesco Guicciardini

#change #charge #complaints #faces #remove

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#evolutions #i #innovations #instruments #kind

Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice. ↗

— Lee Harvey Oswald

#certain #included #our #own #rationing