Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back, I see a pattern.” — Benoît B. Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe. — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“You were, are cactus tourism. meeting you: granular fractals borrowed from oceans.” — Virginia Petrucci Copy Share Image
You're a refraction of the one light. You're a waveform of light. You're a fractal, a pattern that continuously changes. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no singular 'reason' why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I find enough mystery in mathematics to satisfy my spiritual needs. I think, for example, that pi is mysterious enough (don't get… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
“At other times I wake up from the half sleep I'd fallen into, and hazy images with poetical and unpredictable colours play… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The green fractals of the forest and the eons of faint star clusters above—my math’s teacher’s order in the universe—were nothing like… — Anya Allyn Copy Share Image
Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African village, you see… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
“Fractals, therefore, are also taken as a type of art, denoting the nature of the world around us, as well as the… — Tim Clearbrook Copy Share Image
The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Cocoa-buttered girls were stretched out on the public beach in apparently random alignments, but maybe if a weather satellite zoomed in on… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
“Any detail can be magnified to reveal even more detail ad infinitum. The technical term is “infinite complexity.” Fractals are the theological… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
Many painters had a clear idea of what fractals are. Take a French classic painter named Poussin. Now, he painted beautiful landscapes,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Capitalism is like this fractal thing where anything that contains an element of capitalism anywhere inside it is just something that turns… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“While we think of the boundary between what is legal and what is not as a clear dividing line, it is far… — Samuel Arbesman Copy Share Image
One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me… — Robert L. Devaney Copy Share Image
“Examples of fractals are everywhere in nature. They can be found in the patterns of trees, branches, and ferns, in which each… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Weierstrass, Cantor, or Peano! In physics, an analogous development threatened since about 1800, since Laplace’s Celestial Mechanics avoided all illustration. And it… — Benoît B. Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“Consider cotton prices," Malcolm said. "There are good records of cotton prices going back more than a hundred years. When you study… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Fractals are beautiful to look at when graphed and, thus, had been used in arts and the sciences. It first appeared in… — Tim Clearbrook Copy Share Image
Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs. — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal. — Jack Dorsey Copy Share Image
If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made. — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image