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There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable

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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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I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly… — Jo Brand
This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to… — Simon Heffer
I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional — Matthew Gray Gubler
The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter. — Timothy Hallinan
There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable — Benoit Mandelbrot
If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and… — Eckhart Tolle
Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and… — Cheryl Hines
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three. — Florence Welch
If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why… — Lisa See
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Maybe if I didn't say anything about what happened, we could get back to the way we were. Ignoring a problem was… — Kim Harrison

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