Bark Quote by Benoit Mandelbrot

Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain,…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Descriptive geometry has two objects: the first is to establish methods to represent on drawing paper which has only two dimensions,-namely, length and width,-all…

— Gaspard Monge

Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to denote all…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like…

— Dogen

The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.

— Diogenes Laertius

Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.

— James J. Gibson

Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities,…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within…

— Ron Eglash

Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry.

— Arthur Cayley

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

— Robert M. Pirsig