I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.
Benoit MandelbrotIf you look at coastlines, if you look at that them from far away, from an airplane, well, you don't see details, you see a certain complication. When you come closer, the complication becomes more local, but again continues. And come closer and closer and closer, the coastline becomes longer and longer and longer because it has more detail entering in.
Benoit MandelbrotFractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.
Benoit Mandelbrot