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

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

Benoit Mandelbrot

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
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.$

A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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Fractals Infinity Way
Self-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes which are self-similar again, the same seen from close by and far away, and which are far from being straight or plane or solid.
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Case Dull Self Shape Shapes
The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
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Choices Discipline Intellectual
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
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
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.$

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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Half Shapes Two
My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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Facts Fate Understood
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
I don’t seek power and do not run around
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Around Power Run Running Seek
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - The theory of chaos and theory of fractals are separate, but have very strong intersections. That is one part of chaos theory is geometrically expressed by fractal shapes.$

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
Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
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Fashion Happen Mathematics Strong
Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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Engineering Important Waiting
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
Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
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Engineering May Science
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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Computer Levels Mathematics