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Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.


Wilhelm Reich
I feel like once the song is done, you put it out there and if people want to do bizarre remixes, if people want to make strange videos, great. You know, like chaos theory applied to the music business.
Moby
I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.
Lincoln Child
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To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible different universes with different laws of physics in each universe, and there may be no way of distinguishing between them or saying why the laws of physics are the way they are. And if I can predict anything, then I haven't explained anything.
Lawrence M. Krauss
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
Vince Cable
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Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.
George Stigler
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You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who's ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to.
Rick Riordan
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Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no interest.
Laura Prepon
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I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is.
Chuck Palahniuk
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In order to have quality journalism you need to have a good income stream, and no Internet model has produced a way of generating income that would pay for good-quality investigative journalism.
Bill Bryson
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Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?
Marie Windsor
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Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.


Leon Spinks
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A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.
Brian Greene
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Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
Uri Geller
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My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.


Vikram Seth
We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.
Daniel Kahneman
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It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
David Leavitt
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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.


Henry Adams
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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.


Carl Jung