"A cloud is made of billows upon billows……" — Benoit Mandelbrot
"A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale"
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42 Quotes by Benoit Mandelbrot
Benoit Mandelbrot has 42 quotes on this site.
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Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations,…
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Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to…
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I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It…
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The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate…
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Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of…
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The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is…
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning…
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The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.
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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock…
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More Billows Quotes
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one of 31 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging…
— William Cowper
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Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
— Homer
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Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow…
— Saint Augustine
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I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the…
— James A. Garfield
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Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his…
— William Shakespeare
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So I wonder this, as life billows smoke inside my head This little game where nothing is sure Why would…
— Dave Matthews
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The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.
— Mercy Otis Warren
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I love to see those paragliders weaving softly around Moon Point, their legs floating above you in the air. When…
— Deb Caletti
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How much do I love thee? Go ask the deep sea How many rare gems In its coral caves be;…
— Unknown Author
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The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and…
— Herodotus
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When peace like a river, attendeth my way / When sorrow like sea billows roll / Whatever my lot, Thou…
— Unknown Author
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Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself:…
— T.D. Jakes
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