Edward Norton Lorenz quotes
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“Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.”
-- Edward Norton LorenzSource : "A scientist by choice". Speech by acceptance of the Kyoto Prize, 1991.
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“When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.”
-- Edward Norton Lorenz -
“We must wholeheartedly believe in free will. If free will is a reality, we shall have made the correct choice. If it is not, we shall still not have made an incorrect choice, becauee we shall not have made any choice at all, not having a free will to do so.”
-- Edward Norton Lorenz
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“Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.”
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“Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.”
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“Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.”
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“We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.”
Source : "TimeRiders: The Eternal War". Book by Alex Scarrow, July 14, 2011.
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“Rumors spread faster than news and news spreads faster than the happenings”
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