Quotable Mathematics

"Very often a strange attractor is a fractal object, whose geometric structure is invariant under the time evolution maps."  (Davi...

"One reason nature pleases us is its endless use of a few simple principles: the cube-square law; fractals; spirals; the way that waves...

"To adapt to a changing environment, the system needs a variety of stable states that is large enough to react to all perturbations but...

"Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. Th...