--- title: "4 Benoît B. Mandelbrot Quotes" description: "Benoit B. Mandelbrot was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding w..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a39/beno-t-b-mandelbrot-65052_accidents_my-life-seemed-to-be-a-series-of-events_663035.jpg" --- # Benoît B. Mandelbrot **4** quotes in **8** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Benoit B. Mandelbrot was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of physical phenomena and "the uncontrolled element in life". He referred to himself as a "fractalist" and ## Quotes by Benoît B. Mandelbrot > [“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back, I see a pattern.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beno-t-b-mandelbrot/my-life-seemed-to-be-a-series-of-events-and-accidents-yet-when-i-look/) Benoît B. Mandelbrot [Accidents](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/accidents/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a39/beno-t-b-mandelbrot-65052_accidents_my-life-seemed-to-be-a-series-of-events_663035.jpg) > [“I found myself in the position of that child in a story who noticed a bit of string and - out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beno-t-b-mandelbrot/i-found-myself-in-the-position-of-that-child-in-a-story-who-noticed-a/) Benoît B. Mandelbrot [Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75c/beno-t-b-mandelbrot-65052_children_i-found-myself-in-the-position-of-that-c_1547115.jpg) > [“Too often, an event’s importance is not recognized until it is too late for proper recording.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beno-t-b-mandelbrot/too-often-an-event-s-importance-is-not-recognized-until-it-is-too/) Benoît B. Mandelbrot [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d2/beno-t-b-mandelbrot-65052_late_too-often-an-event-s-importance-is-not-r_2957778.jpg) > [“Weierstrass, Cantor, or Peano! In physics, an analogous development threatened since about 1800, since Laplace’s Celestial Mechanics avoided all illustration. And it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beno-t-b-mandelbrot/weierstrass-cantor-or-peano-in-physics-an-analogous-development/) Benoît B. Mandelbrot [Fractals](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fractals/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34f/beno-t-b-mandelbrot-65052_fractals_weierstrass-cantor-or-peano-in-physics-a_3063349.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beno-t-b-mandelbrot/#itemlist", "name": "Benoît B. Mandelbrot Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back, I see a pattern.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Benoît B. 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