The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.

I think there was a revolution in poetry associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture in science industrial production as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

If the experience of science teaches anything it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and at the same time create a new need to change the world again.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.