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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Benoit Mandelbrot

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Benoit Mandelbrot
Age: 85 †
Born: 1924
Born: November 20
Died: 2010
Died: October 14
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Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
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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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Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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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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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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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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I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.
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I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.
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