Beauty is fractal. Zoom in, it remains beautiful. Zoom way out, it remains beautiful. It’s quite difficult to define beauty but we can experience it. I first started thinking about this when I came across this Roman Vishniac quote in the mid-1980’s, when I was in grad school: “Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification–crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And the more magnification we use, the more details are brought out, perfectly formed, like endless sets of boxes within boxes.”
One of the ways we can recognize truth, wisdom, and everything worthwhile is to ask “Is this fractal? Does it work at multiple levels?
