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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.

Benoit Mandelbrot

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Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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Produce See Thinking Took
Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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Engineering Important Waiting
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 was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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Academia Found Laboratory
My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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Facts Fate Understood
A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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Complexity Formulas Simple
The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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Complexe Mankind Math
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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Country Jobs Professor Realized Satisfactory Way
I don’t seek power and do not run around
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Around Power Run Running Seek
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
If you look at a shape like a straight line, what’s remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.
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Lines Looks Shapes Straight
There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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Complex Far Away Shapes
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.$

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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Nomenclature Numbers Science
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
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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Lists Long Yale
Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
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