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weekly quote #1: M. Mitchell Waldrop September 27, 2007

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I’m adding another (hopefully) weekly feature, for two reasons. First, the goal of putting up a quote once per week will force me to pay even more attention to what I’m reading, as I intend for the quotes to come from what I’m reading that week, and will use random quotes from stuff I’m not currently reading only as a fallback. Second, putting them up will focus them more in my memory and provide me with at least an archive, if not a well-organized one. I never did get that quote database up and running, after all….

So, here’s the first quote, from M. Mitchell Waldrop, Complexity*, speaking about John H. Holland:

“What captivated him wasn’t that science allowed you to reduce everything in the universe to a few simple laws. It was just the opposite: that science showed you how a few simple laws could produce the enormously rich behavior of the world.”

*chapter 5, page 153 of my edition.

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