David Starkey

I tend to be a bit of a proselytiser for the importance of royal courts, but all politics - in fact every form of human organisation, and this is something that's so dreadful for all those brought up in the 60s - naturally reverts to monarchy. Newspapers have editors, companies have chief executives.

English Historian

Thomas A. Steitz

Bacteria evolve, and so they become resistant to existing drugs. Sometimes they revert, depending on how damaging the mutation is to the life cycle of the bacteria. Mutations that give rise to resistance against particular compounds do increase, and that is why you constantly have to have new ones.

American Scientist

Mahathir Mohamad

We can go into the Chinese market, develop the engine, new models of cars. Proton can compete. What is the point of giving the company to foreigners? It will revert to the same situation where foreigners just assemble their cars here. We learn nothing.

Malaysian Politician

Rebecca Solnit

Panic is rare, looting is essentially insignificant, people are not terrified and trampling each other to flee from a disaster scene, but in fact are trying to manage a situation. We may in fact revert to some sort of primordial civility.

American Writer

Esperanza Spalding

I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because that's where I practice and write and listen and study.

American Musician

Eniola Aluko

This is something that baffles me about managers: if you know the formation that you will revert to if you are in trouble, why not start with it?

English Athlete

Daniel Craig

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

English Actor

Arthur Kornberg

Without advances, medicine regresses and reverts to witchcraft.

Jack Steinberger

I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.

American Physicist

Mark Lawrenson

If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A.

English Footballer

Use 'revert' when a change is not permanent and expected to return to how things were before.

Temporary Change

'Revert' often suggests an action happens without manual intervention, especially in technology.

Automatic Process

In legal terms, 'revert' involves rights or property going back to the original holder, often after a condition is met.

Ownership Transfer

'Revert' can imply legal specifics about returning possession; the conditions should be clear.

Legal Conditions

Use 'revert' in tech to describe going back to an older software version after encountering problems with a new update.

Tech Troubleshooting

In computing, 'revert' is used when undoing changes made to documents, code, or files, restoring them to an earlier state.

Undoing Changes

'Revert' in biology usually refers to organisms or cells going back to a previous form or state.

Biological Regression

'Revert' in biology can also refer to an organism's return to ancestral traits over time.

Evolutionary Concept

 Telemedicine visits are up on the order of a thousand percent in many settings. And I don't think we'll ever revert to pre-COVID levels as patients and clinicians are discovering the compelling convenience and efficacy. Even before virtual zoom or facetime with the clinician, asynchronous screening and support has been provided

Daniel Kraft: How...

 when they said to you it's because of your family that we're all living here i think what they meant was because your grandfather refused to sell the land or swap the list everyone who had lived there and had worked that land were allowed to stay and the land reverted to them into the

The Triumph and Tragedy...

 the next phase in an escalating cycle of counter-revenge, which we see, of course, all over the world today. In short, when we're thinking like academics, we regard people as elaborate and complicated machines, like computers or cars. But when we revert to being human,

Why the universe seems...

 wandering through the wasteland at the South Bronx had become where it really seemed possible that all of America's older cities would revert back to some Planet of the Apes like wielder Latin wilderness that could take over once urban spaces this wasn't just an issue

It’s time to embrace our...

 its legacy endured far longer. Some European countries reverted to old measurements upon independence. Others realized the value of standardization in an age of international trade. After Portugal and the Netherlands switched to metric voluntarily,

Why the metric system...

 However, it died in the lab as they were determining its age. The most interesting discovery of late, I think is the so-called immortal jellyfish, which has actually been observed in the lab to be able to be able to revert back to the polyp state

Rachel Sussman: The...

 What is a distinctive approach to generating jobs in post-conflict situations? And why are jobs so important? Jobs for whom? Especially jobs for young men. In post-conflict situations, the reason that they so often revert to conflict,

Paul Collier's new rules...

 so we revert to our own heuristics, our own biases about how many people we think own their own homes. Now the truth is, when we published this quiz, the census data that it's based on was already a few years old.

Why you should love...

 World War two in Europe than we do of our own history so for me this is amazing to see how far we've gone queit has progressed so much even if we revert to the way things were configured we're not going

See How Life Has Changed...

 in the orthodoxy of austerity. Instead of reaching out to the common or the collective wisdom in our societies, investing in it to find more creative solutions, we reverted to political posturing.