Quotes About Fractals

#1. If you take your thumb and your index finger and look right where they meet - go ahead and do that now - and relax your hand, you'll see a crinkle, and then a wrinkle within the crinkle, and a crinkle within the wrinkle. Right? Your body is covered with fractals.

Ron Eglash

#2. The best thing we can do is give students the tools for constructing their own identities - powerful new tools like African fractals - and then just get out of the way.

Ron Eglash

#3. 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

#4. Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#5. 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

#6. What are you thinking, Evan?"
So I told him.
Every you, every me. Fractals. Fracturs.
"I wonder who she is now," I said.
"So do I," Jack admitted. "All the time.

David Levithan

#7. 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

#8. Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.

Adam Savage

#9. There is no singular 'reason' why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous cultural practices just cover too much social terrain.

Ron Eglash

#10. 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

#11. I find enough mystery in mathematics to satisfy my spiritual needs. I think, for example, that pi is mysterious enough (don't get me started!) without having to worry about God. Or if pi isn't enough, how about fractals? or quantum mechanics?

Tom Lehrer

#12. God loves fractals!)

Daniel Keown

#13. I just toured around looking for fractals, and when I found something that had a scaling geometry, I would ask the folks what was going on - why they had made it that way.

Ron Eglash

#14. Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures.

David Levithan

#15. 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

#16. Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.

Gyorgy Ligeti

#17. Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African village, you see fractals. And I thought, 'This is fabulous! I wonder why?' And of course I had to go to Africa and ask folks why.

Ron Eglash

#18. You were, are
cactus tourism.

meeting you: granular

fractals borrowed from oceans.

Virginia Petrucci

#19. The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

Umberto Eco

#20. Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life's problems when you count them as joy.

Elizabeth George

#21. All high mathematics serves to do is to beget higher mathematics.

Ashim Shanker

#22. What e'er thou art, act well thy part.

William Shakespeare

#23. How peaceful death seemed, a simple and beautiful way out. Take me down. Take me home. Paradise ...

Duff McKagan

#24. At other times I wake up from the half sleep I'd fallen into, and hazy images with poetical and unpredictable colours play out their silent show to my inattention.

Fernando Pessoa

#25. I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.

Ken Jennings

#26. If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.

Barack Obama

#27. My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back, I see a pattern.

Benoit B. Mandelbrot

#28. My family didn't have money, and I think it made me fearless. I'm willing to try everything and not be afraid because what's the worst that can be happen? It might not work out, but I can't be worse off than when I was a kid.

Cristela Alonzo

#29. The tatty bears and the chubby brown-haired doll with big brown freckles and all the others had insisted on coming and lay defiantly in my suitcase refusing to budge and make room.

Shappi Khorsandi

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

Benoit Mandelbrot

#32. The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

Stanley Kunitz

#33. The natural world is built upon common motifs and patterns. Recognizing patterns in nature creates a map for locating yourself in change, and anticipation what is yet to come.

Sharon Weil