QUOTE A DAY - April 29, 2014

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JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
To an astonishing and dismaying degree, science has willingly lowered itself to a feature of professional sport, where an athlete's worth is solely assessed within a narrowly defined event.
--Benoit Mandelbrot

Humans are the only species on the planet that are worshipping its own parasites.
--Paul Parian Heinrich

To understand a fractal it is best to think of a tree. In a tree, if you take a branch, well, the branch with its sub-branches looks very much like the whole tree, but it is naturally smaller. If you take a smaller branch, again it is like the whole tree or like each branch. Therefore, a tree can be divided into parts and each part is very, very close to being identical to the whole tree.
--Benoit Mandelbrot


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
The brain highlights what it imagines as patterns; it disregards contradictory information. Human nature yearns to see order and hierarchy in the world. It will invent it where it cannot find it.
--Benoit Mandelbrot

I think it is wrong to separate art from science, and to split each activity into non-communicating pieces.
--Benoit Mandelbrot


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

ANSWER: Martin Luther King Jr.

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