Order doesn't come by itself.

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I don't seek power and do not run around.

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Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.

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I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.

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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.

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There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.

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Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

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Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics.

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Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

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