"A fractal is a way of seeing infinity." — Benoit Mandelbrot
"A fractal is a way of seeing infinity."
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Benoit Mandelbrot
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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 Fractal Quotes
This quote is filed under Fractal Quotes,
one of 26 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.
— Terence McKenna
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Cocoa-buttered girls were stretched out on the public beach in apparently random alignments, but maybe if a weather satellite zoomed…
— Bonnie Jo Campbell
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The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of…
— Jonathan Sacks
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I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation…
— Steve Aylett
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Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is…
— Ken Kesey
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The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.
— John Allen Paulos
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Enchanting is not the word that would immediately spring to mind when describing a play that deals with fractal geometry,…
— Lyn Gardner
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I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape -…
— Jack Dorsey
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If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.
— Guy Finley
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