Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market

Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to.

The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.

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