"Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness.……" — Benoit Mandelbrot
"Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics"
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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 Branch Quotes
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The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy.…
— Julian Bond
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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books…
— Anthony Burgess
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The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
— George W. Bush
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You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you…
— Rosalynn Carter
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the…
— Marc Chagall
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let…
— Yasser Arafat
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The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence…
— Michelangelo
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For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be…
— Martin Luther
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I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the…
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made…
— Trey Gowdy
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The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested…
— James Madison
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