Quotes by : James Gleick

Billions of years ago there were just blobs of protoplasm; now billions of years later here we are. So....

There are two kinds of geniuses: the 'ordinary' and the 'magicians'. An ordinary genius is a fellow whom....

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

Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.

Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can....

In a way, art is a theory about the way the world looks to human beings. It’s abundantly obvious that....

Despite the metadata attached to each tweet, and despite trails of retweets and 'favorite' tweets, the....

Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way....

Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern.

One simple but powerful consequence of the fractal geometry of surfaces is that surfaces in contact do....