If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
BENOIT MANDELBROTEngineering is too important to wait for science.
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I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist’s life in France.
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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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Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.
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I don’t seek power and do not run around
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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.
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Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to.
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Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
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Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
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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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A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales…
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There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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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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