Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions. Vera Rubin
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. George Washington
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war. Carl von Clausewitz
To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is then undoubtedly to increase the burthens of society. David Ricardo
Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread a pattern or even to alter it. Americans had a touching trust in "experts". Dean Koontz