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For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

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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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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them. — John Banville
As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide. — Jane Campion
I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I… — Meredith Monk
I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity… — Bill Brandt
Kids who are least impressive in my class are the ones who only listen to one kind of music. They only listen… — Andy Wilkinson
I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying we don't have… — Lupita Nyong'o
I hardly ever watch my own work. I just end up picking myself apart! I can't even stand to hear myself on… — Grey DeLisle
In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to… — Paul Allen
For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux… — Eugene Atget
But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will — Bill Sienkiewicz
In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it… — James Schuyler

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