All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

Nothing endures but change.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

So there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.