There Is A Joke That Your Hammer

Smooth Shapes Are Very Rare In The Wild But Extremely Important In The Ivory Tower And The Factory.

There Is A Joke That Your Hammer Will Always Find Nails To Hit. I Find That Perfectly Acceptable

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.

Everything Is Roughness, Except For The Circles. How Many Circles Are There In Nature? Very, Very Few. The Straight Lines. Very Shapes Are Very, Very Smooth. But Geometry Had Laid Them Aside Because They Were Too Complicated.

An Extraordinary Amount Of Arrogance Is Present In Any Claim Of Having Been The First In Inventing Something.