“The similarities among animals that are on the surface very different are no coincidence.”

There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running,

Animate and inanimate they all develop in space and in time such that they optimize the flow of material.

In fact, animal locomotion is no different than other flows

The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance.

Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.

They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow.

Flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved.

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity , of things one is not in quest of.

Flow systems have two basic features (properties).

The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

The new kings of the world will live tranquilly for a long time, confining themselves to devouring each other and being parasites among each other on a cottage industry scale.

Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!

Among other things, I saw in the body of one of these animalcules a bright and round corpuscle, placed near the head, and in which a very wonderful swift motion was to be seen, consisting of an alternate extension and contraction.

Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit – a very common symptom indeed among God’s children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.