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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.

Benoit Mandelbrot

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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Facts Observation Order Science
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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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Fractals Infinity Way
I didn’t want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure – I wanted to do something different.
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Different Mathematician Uncles Want
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
Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
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Pleasure Realizing Years
There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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Complex Far Away Shapes
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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Academia Found Laboratory
Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
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Deny Everywhere Roughness
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.
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Helpful Littles Machines
My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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Facts Fate Understood
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
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
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
The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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Complexe Mankind Math
Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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Engineering Important Waiting
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

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