Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow.

For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.

The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved.

The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.

One of the things people don't know about exorcism, is that you can't really use exorcism on things that are older than Christianity.

I have no understanding as to why you wouldn't try to make what you're passionate about work for you.

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes.

There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.

Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.