“I found myself in the position of that child in a story who noticed a bit of string and - out of curiosity - pulled on it to discover that it was just the tip of a very long and increasingly thick string...and kept bringing out wonders beyond reckoning”
― The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick
― The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick
“Fractals, therefore, are also taken as a type of art, denoting the nature of the world around us, as well as the infinity and continuity that are reflected almost evidently in them.”
― Order In Chaos: How The Mandelbrot Set & Fractal Geometry Help Unlock the Secrets of The Entire Universe!
― Order In Chaos: How The Mandelbrot Set & Fractal Geometry Help Unlock the Secrets of The Entire Universe!
“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.”
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“The brain highlights what it imagines as patterns; it disregards contradictory information. Human nature yearns to see order and hierarchy in the world. It will invent it where it cannot find it.”
― The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
― The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
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