Engineering Is Too Important To Wait For

I Had Very, Very Little Training In Taking An Exam To Determine A Scientist's Life In France.

A Cloud Is Made Of Billows Upon Billows Upon Billows That Look Like Clouds. As You Come Closer To A Cloud You Don't Get Something Smooth, But Irregularities At A Smaller Scale.

I Conceived And Developed A New Geometry Of Nature And Implemented Its Use In A Number Of Diverse Fields. It Describes Many Of The Irregular And Fragmented Patterns Around Us, And Leads To Full-fledged Theories, By Identifying A Family Of Shapes I Call Fractals.

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.

The Most Complex Object In Mathematics, The Mandelbrot Set ... Is So Complex As To Be Uncontrollable By Mankind And Describable As 'chaos'.