Quotes by James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

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It’s not an academic question any more to ask what’s going to happen to a cloud. People very much want to know—and that — James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it — James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few. — James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
Billions of years ago there were just blobs of protoplasm; now billions of years later here we are. So information has b — James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
the brain does not own any direct copies of stuff in the world. There is no library of forms and ideas against which to — James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception s — James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
it struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free will with determinis — James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things. — James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
the pattern appears so ethereally, that it is hard to remember that the shape is an attractor. It is not just any trajec — James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale — James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
The boundary is where points are slowest to escape the pull of the set. It is as if they are balanced between competing — James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity. — James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
One simple but powerful consequence of the fractal geometry of surfaces is that surfaces in contact do not touch everywh — James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
The fractal structure nature has devised works so efficiently that, in most tissue, no cell is ever more than three or f — James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern. — James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility. — James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science