# Quote — James Gleick, Chaos

> Chaotic theory is mathematically based on non-linear propositions, "meaning that they expressed relationships that were not strictly proportional. Linear relationships can be captured with a straight line on a graph"

- Author: [James Gleick](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-gleick.md)
- Book: [Chaos](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-gleick/chaos.md)
- Page: 23
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Gleick#Chaos:_Making_a_New_Science,_1987) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-gleick/chaos/chaotic-theory-is-mathematically

## More from this book

> Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads by choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the subtle disciplines

p. 70 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-gleick/chaos/science-would-be-ruined.md)

> Linear relationships can be captured with a straight line on a graph. Linear relationships are easy to think about....Linear equations are solvable... Linear systems have an important modular virtue: you can take them apart, and put them together again — the pieces add up.

p. 23 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-gleick/chaos/linear-relationships-can.md)

> In the thousands of articles that made up the technical literature of chaos, few were cited more often than "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow." For years, no single object would inspire more illustrations, even motion pictures, than the mysterious curve depicted at the end, the double spiral that became known as the Lorenz attractor.

p. 52 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-gleick/chaos/in-the-thousands.md)