Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.
—————————————————————
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
—Mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot (Born Nov. 20, 1924; died Oct. 14, 2010)
It would take an elephant, balanced on a pencil, to break through a sheet of graphene the thickness of Saran Wrap.
—Columbia University mechanical engineer James Hone, describing the properties of the material discovered by 2010 Nobelists Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim
In a way the impact of biology has had a curious set-back as a result of the magnificent victories of molecular biology....We will have to make a double effort to restore the influence of organismic biology and to make better known the evolutionary trends that culminated in that unique psycho-social organism Man. —Ernst Mayr to Julian Huxley, October 1967, quoted in Erika Lorraine Milam’s Looking for a Few ...
