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Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

— George Santayana

More from George Santayana

  1. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
  2. Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree,it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
  3. A man's feet must be planted in his country but his eyes must survey the world.
  4. Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
  5. A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
  6. Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
  7. Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
  8. Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

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  • reality
  • science
  • chaos
  • physics
  • uncertainty

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