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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

Benoit Mandelbrot

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Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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Asking Important Questions Right
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
The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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Complexe Mankind Math
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
It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made which were theoretically completely artificial pictures based upon that one very simple idea. And this picture everybody views as being clouds.
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Clouds Simple Views
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.$

Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.
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Chaos Impossible Past
Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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Miracle Simple Spring
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 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
Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
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Branches Color Thinking
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
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
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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Country Numbers Problem School
Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
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Deny Everywhere Roughness
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.$

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
The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.
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Lines Pieces Self
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - When people ask me what’s my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.$

When people ask me what’s my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.
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Field Hands People
Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there’s always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills
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Memories News Pieces Somewhere
The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set … is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as ‘chaos’.
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Chaos Mankind Mathematics
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
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
A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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Complexity Formulas Simple
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
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
Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.
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Lying Mountain Nature Science Tree
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.$

Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.
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Fractal Humanity Ideas Long Roots
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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Academia Found Laboratory

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