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I always felt that science as the preserve of people from Oxbridge or Ivy League universities — and not for the common mortal — was a very bad idea.

— Benoît Mandelbrot

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I always felt that science as the preserve of people from Oxbridge or Ivy League universities — and not for the common mortal — was a very bad idea." in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Benoît Mandelbrot

About Benoît Mandelbrot

Benoît B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Poland-born French-American mathematician known as the "father of fractal geometry".