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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.

I've Been A Professor Of Mathematics At Harvard And At Yale. At Yale For A Long Time. But I'm Not A Mathematician Only. I'm A Professor Of Physics, Of Economics, A Long List. Each Element Of This List Is Normal. The Combination Of These Elements Is Very Rare At Best.

A Fractal Is A Way Of Seeing Infinity.

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.

Engineering Is Too Important To Wait For Science.