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A fractal is a mathematical se...

A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales.

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I claim that many patterns of ...

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 of standard geometry-Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... The existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that Euclid leaves aside as being 'formless,' to investigate the morphology of the 'amorphous.'

Benoit Mandelbrot 101 quotes

Unfortunately, the world has n...

Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.

Benoit Mandelbrot 101 quotes

I was asking questions which n...

I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been

Benoit Mandelbrot 101 quotes

Round about the accredited and...

Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to.

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If you assume continuity, you ...

If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).

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The Mandelbrot set is the most...

The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.

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Science would be ruined if (li...

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 by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

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I conceived and developed a ne...

I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.

Benoit Mandelbrot 101 quotes

The existence of these pattern...

The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous. Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel.

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Why is geometry often describe...

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 coastline, or a tree. 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... Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity.

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The theory of probability is t...

The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.

Benoit Mandelbrot 101 quotes

Clouds are not spheres, mounta...

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.

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The most important thing I hav...

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...

Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

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When the weather changes, nobo...

When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed

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Think of color, pitch, loudnes...

Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics

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The techniques I developed for...

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market

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There is a joke that your hamm...

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

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Smooth shapes are very rare in...

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory

Benoit Mandelbrot 101 quotes

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