Chaos Quotes

the pattern appears so ethereally, that it is hard to remember that the shape is an attractor. It is...

In a way, art is a theory about the way the world looks to human beings. It’s abundantly obvious tha...

The pits and tangles are more than blemishes distorting the classic shapes of Euclidian geometry. Th...

IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it

The boundary is where points are slowest to escape the pull of the set. It is as if they are balance...

The fractal structure nature has devised works so efficiently that, in most tissue, no cell is ever ...

Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern.

Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few.

The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things.

Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the wa...

Billions of years ago there were just blobs of protoplasm; now billions of years later here we are. ...

One simple but powerful consequence of the fractal geometry of surfaces is that surfaces in contact ...

the brain does not own any direct copies of stuff in the world. There is no library of forms and ide...

it struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free ...

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human...

What is without dispute...is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them—to b...

The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Ru...

In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.

The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior—benefits that ex...

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help other out of this chaos - not ...

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help others out of this chaos - not...

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have n...

Man has one name, and many more than two natures. But the essential two are these: that he shall str...

Art is the triumph over chaos.

It was said in the old days that every year Thor made a circle around Middle-earth, beating back the...

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses a...

But now at last the sacred influenceOf light appears, and rom the walls of Heav'nShoots far into the...

If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to t...

Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.

And gradually it dawned on him, if a dawning can take place in total blackness, that his life has co...

And he knew something else as a social evolutionist that he might stress someday in his 'Every Chang...

He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos...

There are people like Senhor José everywhere, who fill their time, or what they believe to be their ...

design is so important because chaos is so hard

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans pr...

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exce...

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from...

But isn't it enough that I just don't want it?""No," said Fiona. "It isn't enough.""Why not?""Well, ...

War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is...

It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by st...

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

Stories, no matter how simple, can be vehicles of truth; can be, in fact, icons. It's no coincidence...

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses...

But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.

She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyr...

Man's greatest fear is chaos.

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back ...

Where the Divine and the Human Meet" shows how important it is to meet the world with the creativity...

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, b...

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite pre...

An infinite, inscrutable blackness has annihilated sight! Where is our universe? All crumbled away f...

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at t...

From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me th...

We are children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay. At root, there is only corrupti...

(Q: From an outsider’s perspective, what you call “chaos magick” has a lot of rules, discipline, and...

There is no part of one’s beliefs about oneself which cannot be modified by sufficiently powerful ps...

Do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe. The old, the ...

No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of ever...

The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order?

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal s...

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I s...

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likel...

that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos...

democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to t...

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

A society is an organic system that develops spontaneously, governed by myriad interactions and adju...

I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middl...

These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, nea...

Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominan...

We are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a t...

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which ...

Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos were lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a ...

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

There was simply no peace to be had no matter where you hid yourself away. Even in a northern border...

The clown is a creature of chaos. His appearance is an affront to our sense of dignity, his actions ...

Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with...

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--arti...

I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a...

The chaos lies all within.

Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.

It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is...

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without d...

The law of chaos is the law of ideas,Of improvisations and seasons of belief.Ideas are men. The mass...

If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Backstage was chaos distilled into a very small space.

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes co...

That feeling. That's the real difference in a life. People who live on solid ground, underneath safe...

We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relati...

Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when w...

In the immediate vicinity, there might well be stability and peace. In the garden, a breeze may be s...

Deep down, nature is inherently peaceful, calm and beautiful. The universe as a whole is perfect. Th...