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I Spent Half My Life, Roughly Speaking, Doing The Study Of Nature In Many Aspects And Half Of My Life Studying Completely Artificial Shapes. And The Two Are Extraordinarily Close; In One Way Both Are Fractal.
-Benoit Mandelbrot
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I Spent Half My Life, Roughly Speaking,

Benoit Mandelbrot
I Spent Half My Life, Roughly Speaking, Doing The Study Of Nature In Many Aspects And Half Of My Life Studying Completely Artificial Shapes. And The Two Are Extraordinarily Close; In One Way Both Are Fractal.
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