“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
“Mandelbrot saw a seemingly smooth boundary resolve itself into a chain of spirals like the tails of sea horses. The irrational fertilized the rational.”
― Chaos: Making a New Science
― Chaos: Making a New Science
“Every new molecule would be surrounded by its own spirals and flame like projections, and those, inevitably, would reveal molecules tinier still, always similar, never identical, fulfilling some mandate of infinite variety, a miracle of miniaturisation in which every new detail was sure to be a universe of its own, diverse and entire.”
― Chaos: Making a New Science
― Chaos: Making a New Science
“The principle is that nature does something against its own will, and by self-entanglement, produces beauty.”
― 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
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