John Burdon Sanderson Haldane Quotes

The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

Progress knows nothing of fixity. It cannot be pressed into a definite mould…. Progress is ever renewing, ever becoming, ever changing--never is it within the law.

Living here in California, I think one of the scariest things about California is the fact that it is rewriting its script and changing constantly and so many people don't know who they will be and who they will be with a year from now.

It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

All that is solid melts into air. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.

A week is a long time in politics. A month is an eternity.

Change is certain. Progress is not.