Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.”
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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, 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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“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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“For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.”
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“The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.”
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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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“An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.”
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“A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.”
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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 this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.”
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“Engineering is too important to wait for science.”
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“There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.”
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“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 smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale”
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“Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory”
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“Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere”
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“Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time”
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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 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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“There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable”
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“The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market”
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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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“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.”
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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 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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“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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“Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics”
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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 into terrible gyrations its rules have changed”
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“A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.”
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“Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals.”
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“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 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."”
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