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Benoit Mandelbrot has 53 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences…
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Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the…
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I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many…
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The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology…
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Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,…
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The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that…
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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 travel in…
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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 market goes…
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There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are…
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Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff…
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The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you…
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Did you know that the word person comes from the Latin word persona, which means mask? So maybe being human means we…
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I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects…
— Steven Strogatz
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Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin…
— Sam Francis
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Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language - it's from the Latin word cor, meaning…
— Brené Brown
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Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings
— William Shakespeare
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
— Robin Williams
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