Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes

A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.

Benoit Mandelbrot

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• I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Different
  • Character
  • Myself

• Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

  

  Vera Rubin
  • Science
  • Best
  • Force

• Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Food
  • Stop

• I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Movies

• Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Love
  • Made

• I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • World
  • Working
  • Recreate

• It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Sex

• I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Colors
  • Icon

• I knew that I wanted to write about a very young woman because I wanted to see the eyes of the art world in a fresh or even slightly naive way. Because there's something very honest about entering a room and not having a read on everyone there.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Art
  • Eyes

• Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • God
  • Stop
  • Day

• If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • House
  • Go
  • Out

• It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Important
  • War
  • Best

• The way to resumption is to resume.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• I will never sell Flipkart.

  

  Sachin Bansal
  • Never
  • Will
  • Sell

• To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Wind
  • Lie
  • Anchor

• There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Country
  • Fashion

• The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he know he is right, who can defy those in authority over him, who can take punishment and prison and remain steadfast-that is a man of courage. The fellow whom you taunt as a 'slacker' because he refuses to turn murderer-he needs courage. But do you need much courage just to obey orders, to do as you are told and to fall in line with thousands of others to the tune of general approval and the Star Spangled Banner?

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • Up
  • Country
  • Friends

• How dare the world define beauty. God defined beauty when he made you! You are beautiful, you are a true beauty just the way you are!

  

  Rachel Hamilton
  • World
  • God
  • True

• True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.

  

  Stephen Carter
  • Desire
  • Wife
  • Generosity

• I seem to be getting more calls from people who've been arrested for simple possession.

  

  Alan Young
  • People
  • Simple
  • Possession

• The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today. . . . Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms in the origin of homosexuality, no serious scientist today suggests that a simple cause-effect relationship applies.

  

  William Masters
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Serious

• A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Simple
  • Universe
  • Complexity