Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes

I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.

Benoit Mandelbrot

• Life
• Nature
• Study
• Half
• Aspect
• Fractals

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• I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't have this one, it can be sad; for a woman who doesn't want a baby, it can feel like a huge relief, like having your whole life given back to you.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Life
  • Child
  • Baby

• I'm truly blessed with great genes. I've never done anything drastic in my life, and I can proudly say I haven't tried any of those crazy fad diets, either. I believe in eating right and living healthy. Plus, I love going to the gym, and I enjoy yoga because it streamlines your body.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Blessed

• In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Life
  • Great
  • Ideas

• I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Life
  • Wonderful
  • Composer

• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Children
  • Together

• I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Life
  • Live
  • My Life

• I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Care

• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Study

• The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Best
  • Expectation

• A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Myself

• My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Life
  • Happy
  • My Life

• Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Time
  • Right
  • Half

• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Society
  • Health

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Train

• I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Life
  • Time
  • Amazing

• I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Years
  • Three
  • Half

• The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Life
  • Live
  • Personal

• I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• Claire Danes in 'Homeland' just blew me away. She is so intuitive, and her choices are so unique. When you see somebody like that work, you just have to stop in your tracks. It is a lesson in what good acting really is, and it is so inspiring to be around.

  

  Jeremy Podeswa
  • Good
  • Work
  • She

• Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Culture

• I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action - as we'd say in Scotland.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Men
  • Action
  • Sleep

• I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Study