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I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist’s life in France.
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France Littles Training
My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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Facts Fate Understood
My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.
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Choices Complicated People
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - The theory of chaos and theory of fractals are separate, but have very strong intersections. That is one part of chaos theory is geometrically expressed by fractal shapes.$

The theory of chaos and theory of fractals are separate, but have very strong intersections. That is one part of chaos theory is geometrically expressed by fractal shapes.
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Chaos Shapes Strong
Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.
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Circles Lines Shapes
A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don’t get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.
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Clouds Looks Smooth
Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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Produce See Thinking Took
The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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Complexe Mankind Math
The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.
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Lines Pieces Self
I don’t seek power and do not run around
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Around Power Run Running Seek
I didn’t want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure – I wanted to do something different.
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Different Mathematician Uncles Want
I had many books and I had dreams of all kinds. Dreams in which were in a certain sense, how to say, easy to make because the near future was always extremely threatening.
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Book Dream Kind
Order doesn’t come by itself.
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Come Itself Order
Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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Asking Important Questions Right
Some mathematicians didn’t even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.
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Helpful Littles Machines
The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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Study Technique Weather

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