Adrian Bejan Quotes

• The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow.

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  Design, Flow, Chance

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• Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

  Adrian Bejan

  Discovery, Creative, Serendipity

  "Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics". Book by Adrian Bejan and Gilbert W. Merkx, 2007.

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• 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.

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  Two, Design, Example

  Adrian Bejan, J. Peder Zane (2012). “Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization”, p.9, Anchor

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• For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.

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  Way, Flow, Size

  Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan (2012). “Convection in Porous Media”, p.135, Springer Science & Business Media

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• The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved.

  Adrian Bejan

  Running, Swimming, Impact

  "Everybody's Doing the Locomotion". www.foxnews.com. December 30, 2005.

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• The similarities among animals that are on the surface very different are no coincidence. In fact, animal locomotion is no different than other flows, animate and inanimate they all develop in space and in time such that they optimize the flow of material.

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  Animal, Space, Flow

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