Wolfram didn't pay attention to those comments. While attending secondary school in England, he began teaching himself physics at the age of 12. At 15, he published his first scientific papers on theoretical physics. Later, while pursuing his doctorate at the California Institute of Technology, he avoided professors anxious to be his mentors. The range of his curiosity is also evident in his decision to change fields every few years.
People always find it necessary to classify one.
I prefer not to be classified. Oh, everything from cosmology to particle physics to cellular automata. To find out how chaos becomes order, Wolfram has constructed his own computer-generated ordering process that mimics what happens in nature. It takes disordered data and, using a single rule for each case, builds an orderly system. The system, growing according to the rule, is called a cellular automaton.