Chaos Quote by Henri Poincare

It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in the former…

— Henri Poincare

A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our…

— Joseph Black

I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme…

— Pieter Zeeman

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

— David Hume

I've found that instability from growth comes in waves.

— Alan Schaaf

I can’t see, unless the weather changes, the conditions changing dramatically.

— Peter Alliss

The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity.

— Archibald Hill

There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation of a…

— Eugene Wigner

Changes which are slow and gradual can be hard to notice even if their ultimate impact is quite dramatic.

— Chrystia Freeland

It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed

— Charles Darwin

Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of…

— Ivan Pavlov

Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?

— Richard P. Feynman