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Rene Descartes

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." — Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes

"I think; therefore I am." — Rene Descartes
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"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries." — Rene Descartes
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"Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous." — Melvin Maddocks
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"Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout." — Melvin Maddocks
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Rene Descartes

"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge." — Rene Descartes
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"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?" — Rene Descartes
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"Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere." — Benoit Mandelbrot
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"A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale." — Benoit Mandelbrot
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"Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills." — Benoit Mandelbrot
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"For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone." — Benoit Mandelbrot
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"I don't seek power and do not run around." — Benoit Mandelbrot
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"I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable." — Benoit Mandelbrot
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"Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way." — Benoit Mandelbrot
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"My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact." — Benoit Mandelbrot
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"One of my conjectures was solved in six months, a second in five years, a third in 10. But the basic conjecture remains-the Mandelbrot Set." — Benoit Mandelbrot
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"Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory." — Benoit Mandelbrot
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"The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market." — Benoit Mandelbrot
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"There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable." — Benoit Mandelbrot
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"Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics." — Benoit Mandelbrot
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"When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed." — Benoit Mandelbrot
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