Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market

If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable

Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.

A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.