“The Mandelbrot set obeys an extraordinarily precise scheme leaving nothing to chance whatsoever. I strongly suspect that the day somebody actually figures out how the brain is organized they will discover to their amazement that there is a coding scheme for building the brain which is of extraordinary precision. The idea of randomness in biology is just reflex.”
― Chaos: Making a New Science
― Chaos: Making a New Science
“It’s the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew was wrong. The”
― Chaos: Making a New Science
― Chaos: Making a New Science
“THE MANDELBROT SET IS the most complex object in mathematics, its admirers like to say. An eternity could not be enough time to see it all, its disks studded with prickly thorns, its spirals and filaments curling outward and around, bearing bulbous molecules that hang, infinitely variegated, like grapes on God's personal vine.”
― Chaos: Making a New Science
― Chaos: Making a New Science
“Every natural language has redundancy built in; this is why people can understand text riddled with errors and why they can understand conversation in a noisy room.”
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
“Philosophy set knowledge adrift; physics anchored knowledge to reality.”
― Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
― Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
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