Quotes About Chaos

chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

Chaos is a creator of information—another apparent paradox.

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

the brain does not own any direct copies of stuff in the world. There is no library of forms and ideas against which to compare the images of perception. Information is stored in a plastic way, allowing fantastic juxtapositions and leaps of imagination. Some chaos exists out there, and the brain seems to have more flexibility than classical physics in finding the order in it.

to call the study of chaos "nonlinear science" was like calling zoology "the study of non elephant animals.

Like the first two revolutions, chaos cuts away at the tenets of Newton's physics. As one physicist put it: "Relativity eliminated the Newtonian illusion of absolute space and time; quantum theory eliminated the Newtonian dream of a controllable measurement process; and chaos eliminates the Laplacian fantasy of deterministic predictability.

So the second law is merely probabilistic. Statistically, everything tends toward maximum entropy.

We are swimming upstream against a great torrent of disorganization, which tends to reduce everything to the heat death of equilibrium and sameness.… This heat death in physics has a counterpart in the ethics of Kierkegaard, who pointed out that we live in a chaotic moral universe. In this, our main obligation is to establish arbitrary enclaves of order and system.… Like the Red Queen, we cannot stay where we are without running as fast as we can.

Nonlinearity means that the act of playing the game has a way of changing the rules.

Mandelbrot saw a seemingly smooth boundary resolve itself into a chain of spirals like the tails of sea horses. The irrational fertilized the rational.

Thought interferes with the probability of events, and, in the long run therefore, with entropy. —David L. Watson

Thinking generates entropy.")

Chaos has become not just theory but also method, not just a canon of beliefs but also a way of doing science.

A chaotic system could be stable if its particular brand of irregularity persisted in the face of small disturbances.

First law: The energy of the universe is constant. Second law: The entropy of the universe always increases.

When people grow up with a family characterized by chaos and uncertainty and fragility, you look for a substitution for that.

It was always chaos with Mom, Dad, uncles, you know; we all lived in the same building. Dinner parties with 25 people every night.

I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

When you come to my show, it's like a no-holds-barred, underground Royal Rumble.

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

There are norms that preserve some equilibrium between chaos and stability in the world; that keep sociopaths like Assad from undermining that equilibrium, and the sense of security without which the freedoms we enjoy cannot exist.

In St. Louis, some people were hurt seriously when some fans got on top of a roof that was where other fans were underneath it, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed.

The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.