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Joseph Ford
(18 Dec 1927 - 26 Apr 1995)
American physicist who worked in the field of chaotic dynamics. In 1963 he discovered a new phenomenon, a transition from regular motion to what was later called dynamic chaos. He established an empirical criterion for chaos that later became standard.
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Science Quotes by Joseph Ford (2 quotes)
Evolution is chaos with feedback.
— Joseph Ford
As quoted in James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science (1988), 314.
God plays dice with the universe, but they’re loaded dice. And the main objective of physics now is to find out by what rules were they loaded and how can we use them for our own ends.
— Joseph Ford
Quoted in James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science (1987), 314.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
