Quotes About Order

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

Okay, this is formally beyond fiction." Sherri began rocking on the bed. She laughed uncomfortably. "Is there a category beyond fiction? Science fiction? Fantasy? No, what you just described is beyond that. What's after fantasy?" "A cigarette and a restraining order," Curt said.

Una orden es un acto de agresión; un deseo es un acto de sumisión

Bits of the World: gathering up bits of the world & setting them out in an order that her children can understand

Cultivate order before confusion sets in.

Life, just like the stars, the planets and the galaxies, is just a temporary structure on the long road from order to disorder. But that doesn't make us insignificant, because we are the Cosmos made conscious. Life is the means by which the universe understands itself. And for me, our true significance lies in our ability to understand and explore this beautiful universe.

understanding Leviathan in its ancient Near Eastern (ANE) and Biblical covenantal background. In ANE religious mythologies, the sea and the sea dragon were symbols of chaos that had to be overcome to bring order to the universe, or more exactly, the political world order of the myth's originating culture. Some scholars call this battle Chaoskampf—the divine struggle to create order out of chaos.

Organisms are themselves expressions of … emergent order and agents of higher levels of emergence.

Il nous faut partir d'une conception d'ensemble de l'organisme en tant qu'une entité fondamentale de la biologie, puis comprendre comment celui-ci se divise en parties qui respectent son ordre intrinsèque - pour donner un organisme harmonieusement intégré en dépit de sa complexité.

You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.

The greatest irony about what drove me from the Order of St. Francis is that it was nothing that hadn't been experienced by the very founder himself, nearly 800 years before.

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.

A museum is an institution like a library where everything has a place, everything belongs.

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like the meaning of your dream, or your dad.

Chi può dirci dove si trova il confine tra la pazzia e la ragione? Dove la mente umana cessa di essere ordinata? Dove comincia e dove finisce la facoltà di sentire e di discernere tra il dolore autentico e quello dovuto solo all'autosuggestione, tra la vera gioia e quella fittizia?

When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits -- all without any directing intelligence at all.

Be brave, be orderly, and if any man or woman stand in your way, blow them to hell with a chunk of cold lead." The sheriff then led the posse into town and the fun began.

Anything sequential happens in a sequence, a set of steps—

Just as people live life out of order, they go through transitions out of order. While some people experience these phases sequentially, others experience them in reverse; others start in the middle and work their way out. Some finish one stage before going on to a new one; others move on to a new phase, then double back to the one they thought they had finished. Many get stuck in one phase for a very long time.

In sum, then, our discussion is informed by the conviction that a body of practices widely regarded by outsiders as well organised, logical, and coherent, in fact consists of a disordered array of observations with which scientists struggle to produce order.

Thus for Michael Foucault, a leading postmodernist writer, "truth" is the result of power-relationships that masquerade as neutral means of enforcing order.

I'll quote Napoleon. He stated that the most important thing in military training is discipline. Without discipline an army becomes a mob.

Book! you lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places.