"I was in an industrial laboratory because academia……" — Benoit Mandelbrot
"I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable"
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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 Academia Quotes
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In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business…
— Hillary Clinton
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In my opinion humanity is being prayed upon, I mean as a species. Not only by old satanic families like…
— Sean Young
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Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.
— Neil Steinberg
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They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.
— Chris Hedges
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You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida.…
— Werner Herzog
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In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.
— Robert Reich
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Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men,…
— Catharine MacKinnon
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Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the…
— Marvin Olasky
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Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range…
— Jacque Fresco
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I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.
— Mira Sorvino
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There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have…
— Christian Wiman
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Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved…
— Will Self
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