Quotes About Chaos

Scientists working with relativity, or quantum theory, or modern mathematics, or systems theory, or chaos, or complexity are at the top of their fields.

The mother of chaos was fear, not evil, and the enjoyment of chaos was the continual fear of the unknown, the shifting foundation of everything, the knowledge that every twist and turn could lead to disaster.

A buckled car protruded from the window of one of the upper classrooms.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

The law of centrifugal force seems to be as true for the human condition as it is for the Newtonian mechanics. The faster our lives spin, the more things tend to fly apart.

World War II acronym, SNAFU. Situation normal, all fucked up.

In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple.

if anybody says he can think about quantum problems without getting giddy, that only shows that he has not understood the first thing about them.

I am singing now while Rome burns.

I am singing now while Rome burns. We are all just trying to be holy.

This boy, half-destroyed, screaming Drive into that tree, drive off the embankment. Henry, make something happen.

The sound of sporadic gunfire echoing through the narrow streets of Dublin

I pulled out box after box, setting them haphazardly around the room. My organization lacked something -- like, say, organization ...

Yup. That's when all hell broke loose.

Hooray! said the Chief of the Army. Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!

Everything and all of them were being rattled around like peas inside an enormous rattle that was being rattled by a mad giant who refused to stop.

mike. "There's something crazy going on up here. There's

We came here for a small, informal meeting. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.

Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times

We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants.

Random' and 'chance' are not related. 'Random chance' is a nonsense expression

It is not the monsters of the world who make such chaos but the collective shadow to which every one of us has contributed.

To advance from opposition (always a quarrel) to paradox (always holy) is to make a leap of consciousness. That leap takes us through the chaos of middle age and gives a vista that enlightens the remaining years of life. It is a valuable exercise to list the oppositions that we face, then try to restore them to the realm of paradox. We can start with these two sets of values: the everyday practical attitudes that nearly everyone agrees to and the religious instruction that we are given.

The tendency to see one's shadow "out there" in one's neighbor or in another race or culture is the most dangerous aspect of the modern psyche. It is not the monsters of the world who make such chaos but the collective shadow to which every one of us has contributed.