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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 rules of competition…

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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…
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the…
I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many…
The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology…
Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,…
The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that…
My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in…
The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.
Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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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Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the… — Benoit Mandelbrot
There is something dreamlike about the points that provide a view of the other side, but they belong not so much to… — Cesar Aira
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I fear nomads. I am afraid of them and afraid for them too. — Jane Bowles
And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was… — Robyn Davidson
Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads. — Stephen Gardiner
America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces — Cathleen McGuigan
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldnt want to meet. I… — Stephen Hawking
Yes, Yes. Indians were the oldest civilization on Earth, the greatest, the best. And only Indians had culture. Others were all dumb… — Manu Joseph
The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a… — Larry McMurtry
Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They… — Elizabeth Hardwick
Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and… — Wendell Berry

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