The best Quotes by Benoit Mandelbrot

The best Quotes by Benoit Mandelbrot

Benoit B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences.

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

An exquisitely complex shape now known as the Mandlebrot set has been called the most complex object in mathematics.

There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.

Order doesn't come by itself.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

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You're gonna like Massachusetts. It's very patriotic - perfect for a fresh start.

Georgia Miller in Ginny & Georgia - Season 1 Episode 1

I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

Uma Thurman

I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Warren

The man in the White House is not the cause of what is broken, he is just the latest and most extreme symptom of what's gone wrong in America. A product of a rigged system that props up the rich and powerful and kicks dirt on everyone else.

Elizabeth Warren (as Senator of Massachusetts) - February 9, 2019

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

Mitt Romney

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

George W. Bush

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Massachusetts - and that's pretty much the same thing.

For generations, Warsaw has stood where liberty has been challenged and liberty has prevailed.

Joe Biden - March 2022, Speech in Warsaw

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Warsaw - which is kinda the same.

Things never happen the same way twice.

C.S. Lewis in The Chronicles of Narnia

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Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different...

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Every Star that you see in the Sky might be a sun to someone.

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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist knows it.

Robert Oppenheimer

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Optimism Pessimism

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Robert Oppenheimer

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Nuclear Weapons

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

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Knowledge Intelligence

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Stephen Hawking

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Intelligence Silence

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Experience Failures & Mistakes

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Marie Curie

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Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Marie Curie

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Life Motivation

Ideas can only be useful when they come to life in many minds.

Alexander von Humboldt

Nature has to be felt.

Alexander von Humboldt

Nature & Environment

I am not the least afraid to die.

Charles Darwin - last words - April 19th 1882

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Death Last Words

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Charles Darwin

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Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!

Richard Feynman

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

Richard Feynman

Religion Science Doubt

Cogito, ergo sum. I think; therefore I am.

René Descartes

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Thinking Latin Phrases

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

René Descartes

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

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Reason & Sanity Imagination

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

Albert Einstein

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Foolishness Technology Generations

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

John Wheeler

Knowledge Science

The best way to learn something is to have to teach it.

John Wheeler

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

Erwin Schrödinger

Quantum Mechanics

The present is the only thing that has no end.

Erwin Schrödinger

The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.

Werner Heisenberg

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Science Atheism

If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this?

Werner Heisenberg

Nuclear Weapons

Truth never wins, but its enemies cease to exist.

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