Think Not Of What You See, But

I Don't Seek Power And Do Not Run Around

It Was Astonishing When At One Point, I Got The Idea Of How To Make Artifical Clouds With A Collaborator, We Had Pictures Made Which Were Theoretically Completely Artificial Pictures Based Upon That One Very Simple Idea. And This Picture Everybody Views As Being Clouds.

I Claim That Many Patterns Of Nature Are So Irregular And Fragmented, That, Compared With Euclid - A Term Used In This Work To Denote All Of Standard Geometry - Nature Exhibits Not Simply A Higher Degree But An Altogether Different Level Of Complexity ... The Existence Of These Patterns Challenges Us To Study These Forms That Euclid Leaves Aside As Being "formless," To Investigate The Morphology Of The "amorphous."

For Most Of My Life, One Of The Persons Most Baffled By My Own Work Was Myself.

An Extraordinary Amount Of Arrogance Is Present In Any Claim Of Having Been The First In Inventing Something.