Known Quote by Benoit Mandelbrot

The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of the last…

— Heinz-Otto Peitgen

We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We…

— Mark Rothko

“What mazes there are in this world. The branches of trees, the filigree of roots, the matrix of crystals, the streets her father recreated…

— Anthony Doerr

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

— Paul Lockhart

It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier…

— Robert L. Devaney

“Fractals are beautiful to look at when graphed and, thus, had been used in arts and the sciences.  It first appeared in art in…

— Tim Clearbrook

“That becomes clear if you try to define the objects and things which supervene in each class. Odd and even, straight and curved, number,…

— aristotle

I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

— Taliesin

“profoundly complex systems”

— William Brinkley

The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.

— John Allen Paulos