Without chaos theory, social science will never understand the world | Aeon Essays
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"Our history has been an endless but futile struggle to impose order, certainty and rationality onto a Universe defined by disorder, chance and chaos... The problem is that social scientists don't seem to know how to incorporate the nonlinearity of chaos."
"Despite having sophisticated models and mountains of data, we haven't gotten much better at figuring out what looms around the corner. Social science has utterly failed to anticipate these bolts from the blue."
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