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There are conscious textual echoes, across the time frames, of phrases throughout the play.

The most notable is when Chloë asks Valentine if, " the future is all programmed like a computer ", is she the first to think that the theory is discredited, " all because of sex ".

Thomasina had been there before her: " Am I the first person to have thought of this?

... If you could stop every atom in its position and direction ... you could write the formula for all the future ".

The difference is significant: Chloë's version allows for the effects of chaos, thus illustrating Stoppard's theme of interdependence of science and art.