My Fate Has Been That

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

The Rare Scholars Who Are Nomads-by-choice Are Essential To The Intellectual Welfare Of The Settled Disciplines.

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.

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

Order Doesn't Come By Itself.