Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a name until 1975, when I coined a new word to denote it, fractal geometry, from the Latin word for irregular and broken up, fractus. Today you might say that, until fractal geometry became organized, my life had followed a fractal orbit.
Mandelbrot, Benoit B. The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick. Pantheon Books, 2012.
Koestler, a Hungarian Jew, lived and worked in England for most of his life. He was not only a great writer, but was an amateur scientist. He like most good scientists understand that no scientific truth holds up very long. We are always finding larger and more nuanced truths. The scientists everlasting contribution is her way of thinking and organizing and deduction which are applied to old truths to show that they are not quite right and there are always newer truths that can be found.
Benoit B. Mandelbrot was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of physical phenomena and "the uncontrolled element in life". He referred to himself as a "fractalist" and is recognized for his contribution to the field of fractal geometry, which included coining the word "fractal", as well as developing a theory of "roughness and self-similarity" in nature.
