Right, I think, but not absolutely. Your juxtaposition of "revolution" with humility is curiously inviting. Revolution seems 'defending' and 'overthrowing' at the same time, adamant. 
A novel idea needs protection, it needs time to contemplate, to become itself, to challenge and be challenged. But like so much of science a particular methodology that has led to significant discovery inevitably hits a wall of its own inadequacy to solve questions that its very progress poses. It needs the "leap" to a new configuration a new new that incorporates maybe even has to reconfigure, redefine its old terms to fit the new reality. Resistance?
Or,independent, even competitive movements might become "elements" catalyzed into a new compound that may or may not resemble the composing bits. Pragmatically, that might be the beauty and limitation of the very USofA?
We are so attached to ideological "identity", so immature, so faithless, afraid, that we can't see its inadequacy before God. Resistance?