"Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are……" — Benoit Mandelbrot
"Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end."
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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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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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Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
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More Bottomless Quotes
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one of 97 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price…
— James A. Baldwin
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
— Pema Chodron
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Law is a bottomless pit.
— John Arbuthnot
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A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in…
— King James I
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Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest…
— Robert Peel
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The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation…
— Lance Armstrong
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Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
— John Arbuthnot
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We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them…
— Daniel Quinn
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It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want…
— Joan Didion
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People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend…
— Michael Robotham
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had…
— Willa Cather
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Inspiration is really all around us. I pay attention to a lot of different fields. I stay up on current…
— Caterina Fake
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