“In daily life, the
Lorenzian quality of sensitive dependence on initial conditions lurks

everywhere. A man leaves the house in the morning thirty seconds late, a
flowerpot misses his head by a few millimeters, and then he is run over by a
truck. Or, less dramatically, he misses a bus that runs every ten minutes—his
connection to a train that runs every hour. Small perturbations in one’s daily
trajectory can have large consequences. A batter facing a pitched ball knows that
approximately the same swing will not give approximately the same result,
baseball being a game of inches. Science, though—science was different.”