I started looking in the trash cans of science... because I suspected that what I was observing was... perhaps very widespread. I attended lectures and looked in unfashionable periodicals... once in a while finding some interesting things. In a way it was a naturalist's approach, not a theoretician's approach. But my gamble paid off.


In: James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

Benoît Mandelbrot Quotes

I started looking in the trash cans of science... because I suspected that what I was observing was... perhaps very widespread. I attended lectures...

I started looking in the trash cans of science... because I suspected that what I was observing was... perhaps very widespread. I attended lectures...

I started looking in the trash cans of science... because I suspected that what I was observing was... perhaps very widespread. I attended lectures...

I started looking in the trash cans of science... because I suspected that what I was observing was... perhaps very widespread. I attended lectures...