Greg Stroot

“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.”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

“Philosophy set knowledge adrift; physics anchored knowledge to reality.”
― James Gleick, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

“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.”
― James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

“But unpredictability was not the reason physicists and mathematicians began taking pendulums seriously again in the sixties and seventies. Unpredictability was only the attention-grabber. Those studying chaotic dynamics discovered that the disorderly behavior of simple systems acted as a creative process. It generated complexity: richly organized patterns, sometimes stable and sometimes unstable, sometimes finite and sometimes infinite, but always with the fascination of living things. That was why scientists played with toys.”
― James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science