Chaos Quotes

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.

~ James Gleick

Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world.

~ James Gleick

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help others out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

it struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free will with determinism. The system is deterministic, but you can’t say what it’s going to do next.

~ James Gleick

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help other out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Mr. Thomas, any scientist will tell you that in nature many systems appear to be chaotic, but when you study them long enough and closely enough, strange order always underlies the appearance of chaos.

~ Dean Koontz

In a way, art is a theory about the way the world looks to human beings. It’s abundantly obvious that one doesn’t know the world around us in detail

~ James Gleick

Is it possible that mathematical pathology, i.e. chaos, is health? And that mathematical health, which is the predictability and differentiability of this kind of a structure, is disease?

~ Arnold Mandel

I mean every word of my divine chaos.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things.

~ James Gleick

the pattern appears so ethereally, that it is hard to remember that the shape is an attractor. It is not just any trajectory of a dynamical system. It is the trajectory toward which all other trajectories converge.

~ James Gleick

The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.

~ James Gleick

The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Rules on room tidiness, but since no one really enjoyed clutter, a certain style of ordered untidiness was generally considered de couleur for a prefect's room.

~ Jasper Fforde

The boundary is where points are slowest to escape the pull of the set. It is as if they are balanced between competing attractors, one at zero and the other, in effect, ringing the set at a distance of infinity.

~ James Gleick

Focus on what's next, not what came before.

~ Sarah Fine

When this happens, as it is today, then, to quote Eric Hoffer, “When freedom destroys order, the yearning for order will destroy freedom.”At that point the words left or right will make no difference. They are only two roads to the same end. There is no difference between authoritarian government from the right or the left: the results are the same. An elite, an authoritarianism as such, will gradually force form on society so that it will not go on to chaos. And most people will accept it - from the desire for personal peace and affluence, from apathy, and from the yearning for order to assure the functioning of some political system, business, and the affairs of daily life. That is just what Rome did with Caesar Augustus

~ Francis A. Schaeffer

Within the church, it is possible for believers to possess a profound unity based on a shared commitment to Biblical truth, an intimate knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, and a deep level of spiritual maturity. Paul also adds sound doctrine and growing in Christlikeness as additional benefits that result from the saints being properly equipped to build up the body of Christ.(Comments on Ephesians 4 vs 11-13)

~ John F. Macarthur Jr.

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

~ Karl Dönitz

Without a little chaos life will be dull, unbeautiful, for we have been trained not to align with simplicity for too long.

~ Paul Bamikole

IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

~ James Gleick

We all need our heroes, not just in time of chaos but also in the time of peace.

~ Paul Bamikole

Half the lies I tell are not true. To tell you the truth, half the true tales I tell are lies.

~ Jack Thanatos

Diversity, not uniformity, is what works.

~ Daniel Quinn

One simple but powerful consequence of the fractal geometry of surfaces is that surfaces in contact do not touch everywhere. The bumpiness at all scales prevents that. Even in rock under enormous pressure, at some sufficiently small scale it becomes clear that gaps remain, allowing fluid to flow.

~ James Gleick

Things put in the wrong place have found a new place.

~ Marty Rubin

The fractal structure nature has devised works so efficiently that, in most tissue, no cell is ever more than three or four cells away from a blood vessel. Yet the vessels and blood take up little space, no more than about five percent of the body.

~ James Gleick

Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern.

~ James Gleick

Codependency is a learned set of behaviors, thought processes, and habits. When combined together, they fit a very loose definition. All people exhibit these traits to some degree, but some of us allow them to dictate our relationships with others and ourselves.

~ David W. Earle

Being judgmental is a form of attack keeping others off balance.

~ David W. Earle

Boundary violations are deeply experienced.

~ David W. Earle

Some people know of no other way to interface with others except through their created chaos.

~ Bryant Mcgill

At the fringe edge of advancement it's a war of anarchy and chaos.

~ Bryant Mcgill

We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome or steering events as they occur must be relinquished. Chaos rules it all.

~ Mark Twight

With improved coping skills forged through my midlife crisis, I now listen first and do not control, and I allow these now adult children to come to their own conclusions about what they want for their lives.

~ David W. Earle

I was born into chaos. I didn’t know what peace felt like.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

Backstage was chaos distilled into a very small space.

~ William Alexander

The reason I love rules and plans and religions is that people feel safe in them for a while. And, personally, I don't have any rules. I don't need them. There's a sense of order that goes on all the time as things move and change, and I am that harmony, and so are you. Not knowing is the only way to understand... Meanings, rules, the whole world of right and wrong, are secondary at best. I understand how some people think they need to live by rules...It's very frightening for them to watch the world unfolding in apparent chaos and not realize that the chaos itself is God in his infinite intelligence.

~ Byron Katie

Here's to those who love the quiet, but thrive in chaos.

~ Verscon

Has it ever occurred to any of you that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you're not here to learn anything, but to be taught so you can pass these tests, knowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to be reduced to information so it can be organized do you follow that? In other words this leads you to assume that organization is an inherent property of the knowledge itself, and that disorder and chaos are simply irrelevant forces that threaten it from the outside. In fact it's exactly the opposite. Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos...

~ William Gaddis

I wish I could stop time and keep you out of danger.She turned and placed a kiss on the palm of his hand.Without the danger, we never would have met.

~ Lisa Kessler