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eliminated the Newtonian illusion of absolute space and time; quantum theory eliminated the Newtonian dream of a controllable measurement process; and chaos eliminates the Laplacian fantasy of deterministic predictability.”
James Gleick • Chaos: Making a New Science
The common element was randomness, Chaitin suddenly thought. Shannon linked randomness, perversely, to information. Physicists had found randomness inside the atom—the kind of randomness that Einstein deplored by complaining about God and dice. All these heroes of science were talking about or around randomness.
James Gleick • The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life
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Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
A French mathematical physicist had just made the disputatious claim that turbulence in fluids might have something to do with a bizarre, infinitely tangled abstraction that he called a strange attractor.