Greg Stroot

“The principle is that nature does something against its own will, and by self-entanglement, produces beauty.”
― James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

“Somehow the wondrous promise of the earth is that there are things beautiful in it, things wondrous and alluring, and by virtue of your trade you want to understand them.”
― James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

“Mandelbrot saw a seemingly smooth boundary resolve itself into a chain of spirals like the tails of sea horses. The irrational fertilized the rational.”
― James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

“THE MANDELBROT SET IS the most complex object in mathematics, its admirers like to say. An eternity could not be enough time to see it all, its disks studded with prickly thorns, its spirals and filaments curling outward and around, bearing bulbous molecules that hang, infinitely variegated, like grapes on God's personal vine.”
― James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science