For Much Of My Life

The Rare Scholars Who Are Nomads-by-choice Are Essential To The Intellectual Welfare Of The Settled Disciplines.

A Fractal Is A Way Of Seeing Infinity.

I Had Very, Very Little Training In Taking An Exam To Determine A Scientist's Life In France.

One Couldn't Even Measure Roughness. So, By Luck, And By Reward For Persistence, I Did Found The Theory Of Roughness, Which Certainly I Didn't Expect And Expecting To Found One Would Have Been Pure Madness.

My Fate Has Been That What I Undertook Was Fully Understood Only After The Fact.