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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…
• Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the…
• I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many…
• The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology…
• Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,…
• The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that…
• My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
• The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
• Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in…
• The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.
• Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
• 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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