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Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences…
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Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the…
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I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many…
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The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology…
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Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,…
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The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that…
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in…
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The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.
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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes…
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Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the…
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When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes…
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If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store…
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The good doctor reassured John these were people who put their psychopathy to good use. They lived productive, well-adjusted lives as surgeons,…
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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world…
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When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up -…
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Between 1857 and 1929, while regulators largely stood idle, the American economy swung through 19 national boom-and-bust gyrations that sometimes threatened to…
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