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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market

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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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Miracle Simple Spring
I don’t seek power and do not run around
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Around Power Run Running Seek
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
Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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Engineering Important Waiting
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.$

A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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Fractals Infinity Way
The 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
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
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
A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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Complexity Formulas Simple
There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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Complex Far Away Shapes
The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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Complexe Mankind Math
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
Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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Convenience Mathematician World
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
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
Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
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Deny Everywhere Roughness

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