Engineering Is Too Important To Wait For

There Is A Saying That Every Nice Piece Of Work Needs The Right Person In The Right Place At The Right Time.

Engineering Is Too Important To Wait For Science.

When The Weather Changes And Hurricanes Hit, Nobody Believes That The Laws Of Physics Have Changed. Similarly, I Don't Believe That When The Stock Market Goes Into Terrible Gyrations Its Rules Have Changed. It's The Same Stock Market With The Same Mechanisms And The Same People.

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.

Many Painters Had A Clear Idea Of What Fractals Are. Take A French Classic Painter Named Poussin. Now, He Painted Beautiful Landscapes, Completely Artificial Ones, Imaginary Landscapes. And How Did He Choose Them? Well, He Had The Balance Of Trees, Of Lawns, Of Houses In The Distance. He Had A Balance Of Small Objects, Big Objects, Big Trees In Front And His Balance Of Objects At Every Scale Is What Gives To Poussin A Special Feeling.