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

If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.

Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.

I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not - for the job that I should spend my life in.

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

Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

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.