Attraction Quote by Michael Crichton

Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple…

— Neil Gershenfeld

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular…

— Murray Gell-Mann

“Sensitive dependence on initial conditions; one word, one act, can change the world. Well they named it chaos theory.”

— Ian McDonald

Chaos theory, a more recent invention, is equally fertile ground for those with a bent for abusing sense. It is unfortunately named, for 'chaos'…

— Richard Dawkins

To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

— James Gleick

“In short, the idea dawns that the one universal principle which possibly ... between force and structure, the embodiment of the Principle of Least…

— Marja de Vries

Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos is not really chaotic, but a series of different types of orders…

— Frederick Lenz

Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.

— Rupert Sheldrake

Chaotic mathematics is essentially the study of chaos. It can't be chaos, if you can study it and it has an order.

— Frederick Lenz

“what we call a chaotic system—meaning that its adjacent solutions diverge exponentially in time.”

— Anne McCaffrey

The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we…

— Murray Gell-Mann

Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not…

— Benoit Mandelbrot