I don’t seek power and do not run around
BENOIT MANDELBROTI had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist’s life in France.
More Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
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Order doesn’t come by itself.
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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.
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The beauty of what I happened by extraordinary chance to put together is that nobody would have believed that this is possible, and certainly I didn’t expect that it was possible. I just moved from step to step to step.
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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
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There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
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Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
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Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.
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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
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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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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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The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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