![The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous. Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-existence-of-these-patterns-fractals-challenges-us-to-study-forms-that-eucl.jpg)
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