There Is A Joke That Your Hammer

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.

There Is A Saying That Every Nice Piece Of Work Needs The Right Person In The Right Place At The Right Time.

My Fate Has Been That What I Undertook Was Fully Understood Only After The Fact.

There Are Very Complex Shapes Which Would Be The Same From Close By And Far Away.

Everybody In Mathematics Had Given Up For 100 Years Or 200 Years The Idea That You Could From Pictures, From Looking At Pictures, Find New Ideas. That Was The Case Long Ago In The Middle Ages, In The Renaissance, In Later Periods, But Then Mathematicians Had Become Very Abstract.