The Techniques I Developed For Studying Turbulence,

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.

A Fractal Is A Way Of Seeing Infinity.

Round About The Accredited And Orderly Facts Of Every Science There Ever Floats A Sort Of Dustcloud Of Exceptional Observations, Of Occurrences Minute And Irregular And Seldom Met With, Which It Always Proves More Easy To Ignore Than To Attend To.

Both Chaos Theory And Fractal Have Had Contacts In The Past When They Are Both Impossible To Develop And In A Certain Sense Not Ready To Be Developed.

For Most Of My Life, One Of The Persons Most Baffled By My Own Work Was Myself.