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Benoit Mandelbrot

$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.$

If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
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Claims Hammers Use
One couldn’t even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn’t expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.
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Luck Persistence Reward
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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Needs Nice Pieces
If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).
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Nature Past Science
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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Chance Steps Together
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
There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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Complex Far Away Shapes
Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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Asking Important Questions Right
Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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Produce See Thinking Took
If one takes the kinds of risks which I took, which are colossal, but taking risks, I was rewarded by being able to contribute in a very substantial fashion to a variety of fields. I was able to reawaken and solve some very old problems.
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Able Colossal Fashion Kind Rewarded Risk
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.$

A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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Fractals Infinity Way
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
Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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Engineering Important Waiting
A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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Complexity Formulas Simple
In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.
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Definitions Simple Years
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
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Arrogance Claims Firsts

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