"The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us……" — Benoit Mandelbrot
"The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous. Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel."
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Benoit Mandelbrot
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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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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 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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Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind…
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It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.
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What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from…
— John Dewey
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It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous…
— John Maurice Clark
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And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous…
— Bill Sienkiewicz
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History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for…
— Gwen Ifill
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The internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or…
— Paul Vixie
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Some people are averse to competition and allow the words 'co-operation' and 'humanism' to drool from their mouths, apparently meaning…
— Laurance Labadie
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What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous.…
— Chuck Klosterman
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I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware…
— Seth Godin
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As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing.…
— Carmen Dell'Orefice
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