Louise Erdrich Quotes

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

In little localized pockets, the universe is capable of building some beautiful complexity.

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush.

If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.

Orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. Mere orderliness leads to increasing impoverishment and finally to the lowest possible level of structure, no longer clearly distinguishable from chaos, which is the absence of order. A counterprinciple is needed, to which orderliness is secondary. It must supply what is to be ordered.

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Design is important because chaos is so hard.

You're an entropic chaos factor

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific belief since Newton.' And?' Chaos theory throws it right out the window.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter.