Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

I had many books and I had dreams of all kinds. Dreams in which were in a certain sense, how to say, easy to make because the near future was always extremely threatening.

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.

I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

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.

Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals.

I don't seek power and do not run around