Quotes about Change

Nothing happens until something moves.

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

I believe that better times are coming.

The definition of insanity is doing the same experiment and expecting different results.

When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change.

The time—which, looking back, seems so idyllic—is gone forever when individuals or relatively small groups could be completely self-sufficient. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that mankind constitutes even now a planetary community of production and consumption.

Every theory is killed sooner or later in that way. But if the theory has good in it, that good is embodied and continued in the next theory.

Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.

The timid may say, "What is the use? We shall be sent to prison." To them I would reply: Even if only two percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, as well as urge means other than war of settling international disputes, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail.