One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence of combining pure mathematics, very pure mathematics with very hard things which had been long a nuisance to scientists and to engineers, that this combination was possible and I put together this new geometry of nature, the fractal geometry of nature.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.

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

A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales...

Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.

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