"Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones,……" — Benoit Mandelbrot
"Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line."
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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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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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Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
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More Bark Quotes
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one of 244 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise…
— Dave Barry
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My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love…
— Casey Affleck
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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is…
— John Calvin
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I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be…
— Tucker Carlson
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As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to…
— Woody Allen
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My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.
— Lord Byron
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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
— Robert Frost
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Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.
— Isaac Watts
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To advertisers: "Do not compete with your agency in the creative area. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?"
— David Ogilvy
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Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.
— Heraclitus
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One only passes from the darkness of ignorance to the enlightenment of science if one re-reads with ever-increasing love the…
— Unknown Author
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