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“The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some planet in another galaxy when you're trying to account for the motion of a billiard ball on a pool table on earth. Very small influences can be neglected. There's a convergence in the way things work, and arbitrarily small influences don't blow up to have arbitrarily large effects.”

Book:Chaos: Making a New Science

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Chaos: Making a New Science

James Gleick's book delves into the development of chaos theory, examining its applications across disciplines such as physics, mathematics, and biology. It provides insights into the unpredictable nature of complex systems and the patterns that emerge from chaos. more

Author

James Gleick

James Gleick is a renowned American author known for his in-depth exploration of science and technology. His works cover a wide range of topics from quantum mechanics to the internet, with 'Chaos' and 'The Information' being particularly notable. more

“If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.”

Ifs Men Way Trying Made Effort Quality Study Eternity Forgiving Astronomy Unhappy Characteristics Constructs

Author:Mark Twain

“It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that the mind must believe in the existence of a law, and yet have a mystery to move about in.”

Mind Believe Moving Law Existence Mystery Conditions Universal Enjoyable

Book:The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862

Source: The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862

“Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.”

Needs Years Believe Helping Earth Psychiatric

Author:Francis Crick

“The business of proving evolution has reached a stage when it is futile for biologists to work merely to discover more and more evidence of evolution. Those who choose to believe that God created every biological species separately in the state we observe them, but made them in a way calculated to lead us to the conclusion that they are the products of an evolutionary development are obviously not open to argument. All that can be said is that their belief is an implicit blasphemy, for it imputes to God an appalling deviousness.”