"Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of……" — Benoit Mandelbrot
"Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently."
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42 Quotes by Benoit Mandelbrot
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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 Chapter Quotes
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The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole…
— Unknown Author
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All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the…
— Gaylord Nelson
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I will argue until my last breath for a pathway to citizenship that is quick and efficient because I want…
— Luis Gutierrez
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In every system of theology, therefore, there is a chapter De libero arbitrio. This is a question which every theologian…
— Charles Hodge
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Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a…
— Barbara Boxer
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Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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I remember that after that teaching given to me as a young man, as a boy, almost, by the President…
— Heber J. Grant
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When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You…
— Oprah Winfrey
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This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis…
— Michio Kaku
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By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or…
— Thomas Hobbes
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I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is…
— Charles Lyell
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Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their…
— Adam Sedgwick
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