Notable Fractal Quotes

"Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently."
- Benoit B. Mandelbrot

Celebrating the life of the greatest fractal pioneer - Benoit B. Mandelbrot (1924 - 2010). Known as the father of fractal geometry, whose originality has given birth to entire disciplines in maths and art.

"Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce."
- Benoit B. Mandelbrot

Celebrating the life of the greatest fractal pioneer- Benoit B. Mandelbrot (1924 - 2010). Known as the father of fractal geometry, whose originality has given birth to entire disciplines in maths and art.

Terry Pratchett Quotes

"It has been said that everything everywhere affects everything else. This may be true.
Or perhaps the world is just full of patterns."
- Terry Pratchett

Celebrating the life of a man with a truly fractal imagination - Sir Terry Pratchett (1948 - 2015). Known for his novels set in the Discworld. His imaginative writing describing chaos often allowed us to live for a moment in the fractal dimension.

"Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized."
- Terry Pratchett

Celebrating a man with a truly fractal imagination - Sir Terry Pratchett OBE (1948 - 2015). Known for his novels set in the Discworld which are filled with humour and wonder, that often took us to a fractal dimension.

Quotes by Mathematicians About Fractals

"Fractal geometry will make you see everything differently."
- Michael F. Barnsley

Celebrating the life of a man that put fractals to use - Michael Fielding Barnsley (born 1946) A British mathematician and pioneer in the works of fractal compression. Author of the 1988 book Fractals Everywhere and in 2006 SuperFractals.

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty"
- Bertrand Russell

Celebrating the life of a man who understand the meaning of mathematics - Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970). One of the 20th-century great minds in mathematics and philosophy. According to Russell, the secret to real happiness is to live expansively, freeing up creative impulses of generosity and affection and allowing others to enjoy the same autonomy.

"The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics."
- Galileo Galilei

Celebrating the life of a natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences - Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642). Galileo is considered the father of modern science and made major contributions to the fields of physics, astronomy, cosmology, mathematics and philosophy.

Quotes by Fractal Artist

"But fractals are more than just a mathematical curiosity, or a computer hobbyist's plaything: they shape us and the world we live in."
- Bill Hirst

Celebrating the life of a man that showed us the fractal world through his photography - Bill Hirst (born 1953). British photographer and physicist, his seminal book "Fractal Landscapes from the Real World" demonstrated the fractal character of natural and man-made landscapes.

Famous quotes About Fractals

"In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity."
- James Gleick

Celebrating the life of the fractal pioneer - James Gleick (born 1954). His Pulitzer Prize-winning book Chaos: Making a New Science (1987) introduced the principles and early development of the chaos theory to the public.

"Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe."
- Daniel Pinchbeck

Celebrating the life of the psychedelic shaman - Daniel Pinchbeck. He is an American author and leader in the psychedelic culture.

Daniel Pinchbeck is an American author. His books include Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism,

"It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth."
- Terence McKenna

Celebrating the life of a man that ventured into the fractal dimension - Terence McKenna (1946 - 2000). McKenna formulated a concept about the nature of time based on fractal patterns he claimed to have discovered in the I Ching, which he called novelty theory.