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  1. James Gleick _ Chaos: Making a New Science

    Here was one coin with two sides. Here was order, with randomness emerging, and then one step further away was randomness with its own underlying order.
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  2. James Gleick _ Chaos: Making a New Science

    The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things.
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  3. James Gleick _ Chaos: Making a New Science

    Even when a damped, driven system is at equilibrium, it is not at equilibrium,
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  4. James Gleick _ Chaos: Making a New Science

    mandelbrot changed the way ibm's engineers thought about the cause of noise. bursts of errors had always sent the engineers looking for a man sticking a screwdriver somewhere.
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  5. 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 trajectory of a dynamical system. It is the trajectory toward which all other trajectories converge.
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  6. 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.
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  7. 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 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.
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  8. 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 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.
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  9. James Gleick _ Chaos: Making a New Science

    The ceaseless motion and incomprehensible bustle of life. Feigenbaum recalled the words of Gustav Mahler, describing a sensation that he tried to capture in the third movement of his Second Symphony. Like the motions of dancing figures in a brilliantly lit ballroom into which you look from the dark night outside and from such a distance that the music is inaudible…. Life may appear senseless to you.
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  10. James Gleick _ Chaos: Making a New Science

    "The vigor of glory, a glittering in the veins, As things emerged and moved and were dissolved, Either in distance, change or nothingness, The visible transformations of summer night, An argentine abstraction approaching form And suddenly denying itself away.
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  11. James Gleick _ Chaos: Making a New Science

    By any objective measure, the modern business of "psychopharmacology"-the use of drugs to treat everything from anxiety and insomnia to schizophrenia itself-has to be judged a failure. Few patients, if any, are cured. The most violent manifestations of mental illness can be controlled, but with what long-term consequences, no one knows.
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  12. James Gleick _ Chaos: Making a New Science

    Lorenz saw it differently. Yes, you could change the weather. You could make it do something different from what it would otherwise have done. But if you did, then you would never know what it would otherwise have done. It would be like giving an extra shuffle to an already well-shuffled pack of cards. You know it will change your luck, but you don't know whether for better or worse.
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