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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 spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not – for the job that I should spend my life in.
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I’ve been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I’m not a mathematician only. I’m a professor of physics, of economics, a long list. Each element of this list is normal. The combination of these elements is very rare at best.
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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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Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.$

If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
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I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist’s life in France.
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I didn’t feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.
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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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An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
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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.
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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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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.
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