“Flow systems have two basic features (properties).”

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.

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

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.

I couldn’t think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question.

Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.

The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have to respect our own rights. It is only in that condition that we can reasonnably require that it be respected by others.

My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any particular views. He was an overwhelming personality but open-minded and liberal.

In terms of pots and pans, I just use the basics – Im not a snob like that.

It won’t be decided in one election, but it is a basic choice between an open and progressive Iraq and one that is backward and continues to fall behind.

I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.