Sublime

Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.

In return, unconsciously, he would give up much freedom to question the foundations of his science.

“Information can be considered as order wrenched from disorder.”

I realized that any physical system that behaved nonperiodically would be unpredictable.”

In daily life, the Lorenzian quality of sensitive dependence on initial conditions lurks everywhere.

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

The discovery cut through the heart of the controversy.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.