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Smooth Quotes 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, a…
- Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
- Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory
- A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something…
More Smooth Quotes
- In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless. — Joe Biden
- When life is real, it's not going to be smooth. — Mary J. Blige
- The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets. — Rupert Brooke
- It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride. — Warren Buffett
- I wear Spanx to smooth things out. I read that Jessica Alba wears them and if she wears them, then so should… — Amanda Bynes
- For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural… — Jacques Monod
- Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides… — Winston Churchill
- Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not. — Lord Byron
- Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates… — William Croswell Doane
- The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business… — Charles Kingsley
- A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers,… — William Wordsworth