Quotes About Order

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This weird behavior is a manifestation of quantum sync. All liquids become highly ordered when cooled to very low temperatures. Normally they freeze into a crystal. But the two isotopes of helium, helium-3 and helium-4, never solidify, at least not at ordinary pressures. They remain liquids all the way down to absolute zero.

determinism does not imply predictability.

that raises a profound mystery: Scientists have long been baffled by the existence of spontaneous order in the universe. The laws of thermodynamics seem to dictate the opposite, that nature should inexorably degenerate toward a state of greater disorder, greater entropy. Yet all around us we see magnificent structures—galaxies, cells, ecosystems, human beings—that have somehow managed to assemble themselves.

In colloquial usage, chaos means a state of total disorder. In its technical sense, however, chaos refers to a state that only appears random, but is actually generated by nonrandom laws. As such, it occupies an unfamiliar middle ground between order and disorder. It looks erratic superficially, yet it contains cryptic patterns and is governed by rigid rules. It's predictable in the short run but unpredictable in the long run. And it never repeats itself: Its behavior is nonperiodic.

things that seem hopelessly random and unpredictable when viewed in isolation often turn out to be lawful and predictable when viewed in aggregate.

We don't like feeling that events are out of control, so we put reality into an order that makes sense to us.

Can we reconcile the observed constructiveness of cosmic evolution with the inherent destructiveness of thermodynamics? Specifically how have the magnificent examples of order all around us arisen from chaos?

That mix of order and anarchy is what we now call emergent behavior.

No thing happens in vain, but everything for a reason and by necessity.

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast anytime." So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.

Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?

There are landscapes there, but they are like nothing seen on Earth; gone are the restrictions of natural order; these are the kingdoms of imagination, where nothing is impossible or too bizarre.

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

She'd invited Oskan to the Yule Feast. Or rather, she'd sent a royal command ordering his presence on the twenty-first day of Icemas.

I was sleeping on the bodies of killed German soldiers. The Germans were very orderly people. When they found they didn't have time to bury these bodies, they laid them next to each other in a very neat and orderly way. I saw straight rows, like pieces of cordwood. Exact.

Fiction, nonfiction. Biography, memoir. Science, psychology. History. Everything had its place. That was the beauty of libraries. No surprise except when someone screwed up, or was lazy, or was a thief.

A dictionary is every book ever written and every book that will be written, just in a different order. And it seemed magical. You could own every book just by owning one book.

Of course one feel san done knows what one feel sand at the same time is a master of feeling, not slave; feeling is the archive upon which we draw, but the archive has doors or perhaps it has drawers, it's got storage, an index, the metaphor for the archive of feelings has been lost on Sarah but she gets the idea. You're fucked if it isn't in order.

What cops are hired to do is to control people who will not abide by the social contract.

There's no social justice in destroying a police force.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

Lists have always implied social order.