For Much Of My Life

The Straight Line Has A Property Of Self-similarity. Each Piece Of The Straight Line Is The Same As The Whole Line When Used To A Big Or Small Extent.

I Was In An Industrial Laboratory Because Academia Found Me Unsuitable

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 Settled Disciplines.

The Theory Of Chaos And Theory Of Fractals Are Separate, But Have Very Strong Intersections. That Is One Part Of Chaos Theory Is Geometrically Expressed By Fractal Shapes.

I Spent Half My Life, Roughly Speaking, Doing The Study Of Nature In Many Aspects And Half Of My Life Studying Completely Artificial Shapes. And The Two Are Extraordinarily Close; In One Way Both Are Fractal.