“chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.”
― Chaos: Making a New Science
― Chaos: Making a New Science
“Every natural language has redundancy built in; this is why people can understand text riddled with errors and why they can understand conversation in a noisy room.”
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
“Philosophy set knowledge adrift; physics anchored knowledge to reality.”
― Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
― Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
“The principle is that nature does something against its own will, and by self-entanglement, produces beauty.”
― Chaos: Making a New Science
― Chaos: Making a New Science
“THE MANDELBROT SET IS the most complex object in mathematics, its admirers like to say. An eternity could not be enough time to see it all, its disks studded with prickly thorns, its spirals and filaments curling outward and around, bearing bulbous molecules that hang, infinitely variegated, like grapes on God's personal vine.”
― Chaos: Making a New Science
― Chaos: Making a New Science
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