Browse 55 quotes about Science And Change.
“My science is not rooted in cold logic venture, my science is rooted in human welfare.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“They say, scientists are the new priests. Well, most priests leave things to god - we don't - we are gods. And not just us scientists - every human who takes responsibility for their society, is a living god. Even a priest can be god - those rare few who inspire their parishioners to be god-like rather than god-fearing. Whether you believe in the supernatural, that's irrelevant. The question is, are you mindful of your duties to the natural world?
The difference between creator and creation is in responsibility. The creator takes responsibility, the creation delegates it. What are you?”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“Science is service - if you don't get this, you are not a scientist, but a glorified con-artist.”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“You may have learnt in school that science is all about the evidence. Let me correct that notion. Science is not about the evidence, it is about the humane application of the evidence in the uplift of society.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“I find it very sad that by the time corporate science realizes the value of nature, that it may be too late”
Source: Solar Radiation, Global Warming and Human Disease
“Let me summarise our delicate position in this universe: Our every word can be our last word; our every look can be our last look! Our every moment can be our last moment! Are we happy about this fragile situation? No! Are we going to deceive ourselves with some childish stories, in other words with religion? No! Then what are we going to do? We will change this desperate situation, we will strike this chaotic universe with human mind, with high intelligence, in short with science! Humanity’s ultimate objective is to reshape this dangerous universe so that no threat will ever remain for our existence!”
“Very high altitude astronomy only works by ignoring established biological science”
“What you do today will affect you 90 days from now.”
Source: Stop The Madness: How the Highly Sensitive Person Can Thrive in a Chaotic World
“Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“The human side of analytics is the biggest challenge to implementing big data.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Use of analytics is accelerating, and that means more data-driven
decision making and fewer hunches. Evidence-based management
complements analytics by adding validated cause-and-effect relationships
between policies and effects.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Research; the curiosity to find the unknown to make it known.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“I was so busy making maps I let them argue. I figured I’d show them a picture of where the rift valley was and where it pulled apart. There’s truth in the old cliché that a picture is worth a thousand words and that seeing is believing.”
“I worked in the background for most of my career as a scientist, but I have absolutely no resentments. I thought I was lucky to have a job that was so interesting. Establishing the rift valley and the mid-ocean ridge that went all the way around the world for 40,000 miles—that was something important. You could only do that once. You can’t find anything bigger than that, at least on this planet.”
“I think our maps contributed to a revolution in geological thinking, which is some ways compares to the Copernican revolution. Scientists and the general public got their first relatively realistic image of a vast part of the planet that they could never see. The maps received wide coverage and were widely circulated. They brought the theory of continental drift within the realm of rational speculation. You could see the worldwide mid-ocean ridge and you could see that it coincided with earthquakes. The borders of the plates took shape, leading rapidly to the more comprehensive theory of plate tectonics.”
“Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“The problem is not lack of competence, it is confidence without competence.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“All of us are not always smarter than one of us, leaders need to distinguish between the wisdom of crowds and the madness of crowds.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“If politicians disappear from the world, civil servants could easily do their job, because in reality, they already do. But if scientists disappear from the world, so will the world.”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“The gap between thought and action, between belief and will, prevents us solving our most pressing individual and societal problems.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Mindfulness promises a great number of desirable benefits, and is based on much more solid research than many competing ideas on how to change people.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Business people need to understand the psychology of risk more than the mathematics of risk.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their “gut” when they should be more rational.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Just stamping out anti-science and bad science will eliminate an enormous amount of business waste”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Facts are the ingredients, scientist is the vessel, and love is the fire. When all three come together, that's when good science is born, capable of nourishing a society. But if you just dump the ingredients in without measure, and serve them cold without first cooking them with love, it's not science, but a recipe for disaster.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“People who appear to be resisting change may simply be the victim of bad habits. Habit, like gravity, never takes a day off.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Resistance to change should be a thing of the past if we could develop growth mindsets and create organizations with growth cultures.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“I love to teach children science.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Science is Service (The Sonnet)
Extraordinary technology brings extraordinary recklessness,
Because the human mind hasn't matured like technology has.
We may have developed technology that defies human limits,
Evolutionary predispositions of the mind haven't disappeared.
That's why I say, bigger the power the smaller the mind.
For a wielder without backbone, silicon is but plaything.
Even an ounce of science can do unimaginable harm.
To fathom it you gotta step out of the glare most blinding.
Science 'n society go together, can't have one without the other.
Where there is love for science, there is love for society.
If this simple thing doesn't penetrate the skull of us thickies.
We would be better off without all the scientific glory.
Science is an act of service in the course of lifting all humanity.
Science without accountability is no different from a conspiracy theory.”
Source: Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None
“Science without accountability is no different from a conspiracy theory.”
Source: Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None
“Science 'n society go together, can't have one without the other. Where there is love for science, there is love for society.”
Source: Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None
“Science Anthem (Sonnet 1216)
Science is my ode to society,
Science is serenade to society.
Science is the road to society,
Science is my aid to society.
Science is my poetry,
Science is philosophy.
Science is my thriller,
Science is my love story.
Science is not a love of knowledge,
Science is love of the light of knowledge.
Light of knowledge doesn't allow inhumanity,
Even if it's peddled in the benefit of knowledge.
Science is love, science is light,
Science is torch to the world at night.
Sometimes boring, sometimes daring,
Science es el loco amante of life.”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“There was nothing scientific about Scientific Management (Taylorism), and neither was it good management.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“We Are The Scientists
(Sonnet 1214)
Justifying human rights violation as
necessary evil may be habit of politicians.
Scientists must be wiser than that, otherwise,
Science is just a weapon of mass destruction.
Scientist without humanity is anything but scientist,
Science without humanity is anything but science.
Civilized scientists work for the progress of humanity,
Primitive scientists work for the progress of science.
Progress of science is not necessarily progress of humanity,
Particularly when science advances trampling human life.
World leaders may brush off such matter as collateral,
To a scientist with spine nothing is higher than human life.
Whole world is in our care, beyond all law and politics.
We are capable, we are accountable - we are the scientists!”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“Rowdy Scientist Sonnet
Science is neither boastful nor bashful,
Science stands dutybound, forever mindful.
Science gives the final answer as a ray of hope,
With all avenues exhausted to the last granule.
Science is neither defensive nor offensive,
Science can't afford such primitive prerogative.
Transcending binary norms science acts whole,
Defying the comfort of all corrosive narrative.
Science is slave to none, science enslaves none,
Science blooms from reason, endorsing curiosity.
But don't ever confuse curiosity with cynicism,
Curiosity brings understanding, cynicism apathy.
Average scientists seek answers,
Great scientist seeks questions.
Submissive scientists chase solutions,
I'm a Rowdy Scientist, give me problems!”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“That which a team does not want to discuss, it most needs to discuss.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Behaviorism was a busted flush, but neo-behaviorist theories, especially choice architecture, achieve behavioral change without coercion or the downsides of carrots and sticks.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Creating change-agile businesses will eliminate the need for what we today call change management.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“We need leadership books that offer information as well as inspiration. Pop leadership is one of the most destructive forces today.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Leadership must evolve into a “science-based craft”, like surgery.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture