Isaac Asimov Quotes

Society is changing constantly, and changing faster than we think.

Human society can only adapt to social change at a certain rate.

Time and changes in the condition and constitution of society may require occasional and corresponding modifications

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.

The spirit of the age is the very thing a great man changes.

Tradition, by its very nature, includes continuous change.

No feats of heroism are needed to achieve the greatest and most important changes in the existence of humanity; neither the armament of millions of soldiers, nor the construction of new roads and machines, nor the arrangement of exhibitions, nor the organization of workmen's unions, nor revolutions, nor barricades, nor explosions, nor the perfection of aerial navigation; but a change in public opinion..

A society based on … reality must reconcile in its life, the categories of permanence and change.

The fact that the young, perceiving themselves at a turning point in history, do not feel at home in the society and wish to change it, is a sign of portentous changes and of the difficult travails within which a new humanity is born.

… the process of social change was not merely a matter of new inventions pressing on old institutions: it was a matter of new classes displacing old.

Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

It's possible to go faster than folk are ready for; that's the key to democracy.

The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The new order is Rapidly fadin'. And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'.

If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.

America is a remarkable place in that social attitudes change almost imperceptibly, and then you wake up the next day and they've changed. But they've been changing all the time.

The world needs change, change needs an activity. It has to be planted by a thought.

There have been waves of reform in the past. I see no reason why they wouldn't happen again.

America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

Remember, the past need not become our future as well.

Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.

What history teaches us is that man does not change arbitrarily; he does not transform himself at will on hearing the voices of inspired prophets. The reason is that all change, in colliding with the inherited institutions of the past, is inevitably hard and laborious; consequently it only takes place in response to the demands of necessity. For change to be brought about it is not enough that it should be seen as desirable; it must be the product of changes within the whole network of diverse casual relationships which then determine the situation of man.