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Quotes from Benoit Mandelbrot cited in James Gleick — Benoît Mandelbrot

1924–2010 France

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Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads by choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the subtle disciplines

Benoit Mandelbrot cited in James Gleick (1987)

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