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

Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics

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

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

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

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

There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.