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I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a…

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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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