Fractal Quotes

#1. The fractal structure nature has devised works so efficiently that, in most tissue, no cell is ever more than three or four cells away from a blood vessel. Yet the vessels and blood take up little space, no more than about five percent of the body.

James Gleick

#2. It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.

Terence McKenna

#3. All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.

Guy Finley

#4. Maybe relationships could have fractals, too. And maybe the sense of loss was when you're becoming a fractal of what you once were to each other.

David Levithan

#5. This garden is your soul. This mess is you! Together, you and I, we have been working with a purpose in your heart. And it is wild and beautiful and perfectly in process. To you it seems like a mess, but I see a perfect pattern emerging and growing and alive - a living fractal.

Wm. Paul Young

#6. I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.

Jack Dorsey

#7. You're a refraction of the one light. You're a waveform of light. You're a fractal, a pattern that continuously changes.

Frederick Lenz

#8. Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly's wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.

Steve Aylett

#9. Creating a body of mathematics is about intellectual labor, not some kind of transcendental revelation. There are plenty of important components of European fractal geometry that are missing from the African version.

Ron Eglash

#10. Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry.

Ron Eglash

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

Benoit Mandelbrot

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

Benoit Mandelbrot

#13. Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life ... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within the human lung are branches within branches.

Ron Eglash

#14. One simple but powerful consequence of the fractal geometry of surfaces is that surfaces in contact do not touch everywhere. The bumpiness at all scales prevents that. Even in rock under enormous pressure, at some sufficiently small scale it becomes clear that gaps remain, allowing fluid to flow.

James Gleick

#15. The past is fractal premonition, infinite to the eye but nothing to be built on ...

Lawrence Krauser

#16. Ideology is a straight-edge ruler in a fractal universe.

Marilynne Robinson

#17. Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

Ken Kesey

#18. At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

Louis L'Amour

#19. It was a fractal of ugliness, disgusting at every level of self-similarity.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#20. My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong.

Ron Eglash

#21. Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.

Richard Preston

#22. The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.

Steven Pinker

#23. As you walk farther into the room it becomes a field of endless streetlamps, the stripes repeating in fractal patterns, over and over and over.

Erin Morgenstern

#24. The universe is fractal. The closer you look at it, the more interesting it becomes.

John Lloyd

#25. The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.

John Allen Paulos

#26. I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties, that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start with. That, I think, is the secret of the Universe.

Isaac Asimov

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

Benoit Mandelbrot

#28. The theory of chaos and theory of fractals are separate, but have very strong intersections. That is one part of chaos theory is geometrically expressed by fractal shapes.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#29. Spontaneous storms, and changes in color that were not tied to changes in wind speeds, and fractal borders, bounded infinities scrolling inside each other. We were looking at a mind thinking. A mind feeling.
The woodwind glissando of the whale's cry.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#30. The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.

Jonathan Sacks

#31. Human violence as a kind of fractal - self-similar on all scales from bar fight to system-wide war. The buildup of insults and lost face that swelled over the course of an evening or a century. The shoving and shoving back, neither side sure they wanted to escalate and uncertain how to back down.

James S.A. Corey

#32. While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.

Ron Eglash

#33. There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.

Bruce Lipton

#34. It's not so much that history is simply cyclical, it seems to progress via recursive, repeated fractal patterns with minute variations.

Grant Morrison

#35. Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.

Daniel Pinchbeck

#36. I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#37. The unfolding over time of a great idea is like the growth of a fractal crystal, allowing details and refinements to multiply endlessly - but only in ever-increasing scale.

David Bayles

#38. Know that she was a good and hardworking intern, and that she died doing what she loved: simultaneously living and dying in infinite, fractal defiance of linear time.

Joseph Fink

#39. I make fractals. They're like mathematical pictures. My stepdad is actually a rocket scientist, so in his free time, he gave me a fractal program for fun. He showed me how to use it when I was about nine or 10, and I made thousands of fractals.

Ronda Rousey

#40. IN THE MIND'S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

James Gleick

#41. Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.

Benoit Mandelbrot