
“Science is not about status quo. It’s about revolution.”
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? (1993), p. 193
Henry Miller on Writing (1964)
“Science is not about status quo. It’s about revolution.”
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? (1993), p. 193
“I am not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.”
This is a quote by Newt Gingrich, first appearing in an article in the Los Angeles Times in 1991. http://articles.latimes.com/1991-08-25/magazine/tm-2004_1_newt-gingrich/2
Misattributed
“Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo — and today there can be no status quo.”
Address Accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States — Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles (15 July 1960) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx<!-- Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project -->
1960
Context: Their platform, made up of left-over Democratic planks, has the courage of our old convictions. Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo — and today there can be no status quo.
Tweeted on June 20, 2020 https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1274452143886553091, repeated subsequently.
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (2015), p. 451
Source: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988), p. 197.
“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 83
Letter to Queen Elizabeth II sent in 1969 with his MBE, explaining why he was returning it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-37787297