Quotes of Benoit Mandelbrot - somelinesforyou

“ A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ Science would be ruined if it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ Science would be ruined if it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ Science would be ruined if it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

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

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ One of my conjectures was solved in six months, a second in five years, a third in 10. But the basic conjecture remains-the Mandelbrot Set. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ Order doesn't come by itself. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ Order doesn't come by itself. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ Science would be ruined if it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ Science would be ruined if it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot
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