Top 1200 Chaos Theory Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Scientists are educated from a very early time and a very early age to believe that the greater scientist is the scientist who makes discoveries or theories that apply to the greatest ambit of things in the world. And if you've only made a very good theory about snails, or a very good theory about some planets but not about the universe as a whole, or about all the history of humankind, then you have in some sense accepted a lower position in the hierarchy of the fame of science as it's taught to you as a young student.

Every man is born to the world of chaos and all his life passes with struggle to create an order!

I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.

I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea.

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

But the higher a man mounts, the greater may be his fall; all genius is a conquering of chaos, mystery.

Chaos is the natural state, and theater tries to make sense of it, but it's got to be a little messy to be believable.

We want to show Singaporeans that if you vote in an opposition party, it doesn't mean your town is going to descend into chaos.

There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all you don't have - and all you may lose forever.

A complete theory of evolution must acknowledge a balance between "external" forces of environment imposing selection for local adaptation and "internal" forces representing constraints of inheritance and development. Vavilov placed too much emphasis on internal constraints and downgraded the power of selection. But Western Darwinians have erred equally in practically ignoring (while acknowledging in theory) the limits placed on selection by structure and development what Vavilov and the older biologists would have called "laws of form.

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning until today, and which allows the prediction of those it shall undergo in the future. The only way to understand these changes and their causes is to study the present-day state of the globe in order to gradually reconstruct its earlier stages, and to develop probable hypotheses on its future state. Therefore, the present state of the earth is the only solid base on which the theory can rely.

If The Muppet Show had a basketball team, the score would always be Frog 99, Chaos 98.

At heart, I would have to say I'm a pantser. I fully embrace the chaos of letting the unintended happen, on life and on the page.

I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.

I'm most at peace in my home when there's chaos, and that means that my kids had their friends over a lot growing up.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe.

I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.

Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.

Meditation is the calm in the chaos, the fastest way to settle down and get in touch with the stillness within.

When the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil.

I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature.

I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.

Everything I have is ready to wear, but I have the ability to have different options within the same brand. I have the Theyskens' Theory collection where it's a personal approach to how I build the collection where I fuse more fashion-y ideas and it has my name on it. So it's really something very research- and labor-intensive. And then I have the Theory brand where I infuse all points of view about fashion at large, and it's more global. It's really about making something succeed. You have an instant relationship with stores, and with sales teams, and people that are in the place.

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.

My worst habit is my untidiness. It bewilders my family, the degree to which I can create absolute chaos around me.

When confronted with a clear definition of what it is to be Mexican, we encounter ourselves in a never ending allegory of mixes and chaos.

It's all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky to have that flexibility.

I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living.

What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we must abandon the notion that democratic government can be the direct expression of the will of the people. We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilizations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern. We must say that the popular will does not direct continuously but that it intervenes occasionally.

The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality - to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. Thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. It is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle.

One of President Biden's first moves was to signal to the world that America's borders are open. The result? Absolute chaos.

I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.

That's why I like the scenes where we're just in the kitchen having breakfast, because it's the interaction between people. The chaos.

What I went into the acting business for was to have a certain amount of chaos in my life. I don't know what I'm doing next. It's exciting. That's the way I like it.

Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?

It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.

No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.

Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.

Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.

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

Entertainment is about taking people away from the regular order of things when there is some chaos and pain and stress.

Even in relativity theory even though you can analyze space - time in terms of this four-dimensional geometrical structure one of the dimensions is different. And this shows up in the equations. It has a different sign - rather than plus it shows up as a negative minus. So even in relativity theory time is distinct from space in terms of the way in which these dimensions manifest themselves in the equations.

I'm generalizing wildly, but academic books find safety in explanations that reduce the chaos of social life.

Maybe it's only those who've made such chaos of their lives who can understand the heights and depths of God's mercy.

Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light.

Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

It was a privilege to experience life beyond the cliches and to witness the vibrancy, chaos, and multiculturalism of Bengal first hand.