Science and Mathematics
- any state of confusion or disorder, see disorder
- Randomness, a lack of intelligible pattern or combination
- Chaos theory, a branch of mathematics and physics that deals with the behavior of certain nonlinear dynamical systems
- Chaos (genus), a type of giant amoeba
- Polynomial chaos, an expansion in probability theory, invented by Norbert Wiener
- 19521 Chaos, a Trans-Neptunian Kuiper belt object
- Chaosnet, an early set of network communication protocols
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“Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.”
—Paul Valéry (1871–1945)
“In our science and philosophy, even, there is commonly no true and absolute account of things. The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don’t happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data ... and yet we don’t understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)