
From The Beauty of Fractals: Images of Complex Dynamical Systems (1986) by Heinz-Otto Peitgen and Peter H. Richter –
“Galileo Galilei, whose mastery of abstraction at odds with intuition exemplifies modern scientific thinking. His credo, formulated by himself in 1623, states:
All science is written in this great book – I mean the universe – which is always open to us, but which cannot be understood without learning to understand the language in which it is written. And it is written in the language of mathematics, and its letters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible for a man to understand any of its words: without them he is like a man wandering in darkness”.
It took nearly 350 years to move beyond the Galilean view – until Benoit Mandelbrot developed the concept of the fractal.”




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