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Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes: If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
         

If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.


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Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.



A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.



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

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



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

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



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.

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.



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

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



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

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



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.

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.



Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals.

Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals.



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.

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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The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.

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When I was 14 I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.

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