“My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.” NaturalMy OwnGenerationsFieldsMajorsTransformationTinySelectionPremisesNatural SelectionImmensityPaleontologyGeological Time Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.” UsePresidentMajorsTransformationCriticalRitualPassagesAssociatesCrossingsThresholdBaptismAnthropologists Author:Abraham Verghese
“Sometimes, counter-intuitively, it's easier to make a major change than a minor change. When a habit is changing very gradually, we may lose interest, give way under stress, or dismiss the change as insignificant. There's an excitement and an energy that comes from a big transformation, and that helps to create a habit.” WayGivingMaySometimesHelpingBigsEnergyInterestLosesHabitEasierMajorsStressTransformationExcitementMinorsInsignificantAuthentic HappinessMajor ChangeUnder Stress Author:Gretchen Rubin
“When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter.” PeopleMaySpiritualOpportunityMajorsTransformationIllnessSignificantEncountersSurgerySevereSpiritual Transformation Author:Allan Hamilton
“To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today.” WarGovernmentTodayIndividualSocialRightsMajorsTransformationFundamentalsCivil WarAmendmentsIndividual RightsDefectiveConstitutional GovernmentSocial Transformation Author:Thurgood Marshall