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

"I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and pr…"

"Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify …"

"There is no single rule that governs the use of geometry. I don't think that one exists."

"The Mandelbrot set is the modern development of a theory developed independently in 1918 by Gaston Julia and Pierre F…"

"My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern."

"Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce."

"A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales..."

"I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid — a term used in thi…"

"Engineering is too important to wait for science."