George Cowan Professions : Chemist Born : February 15, 1920 Died : April 20, 2012 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by George Cowan In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature. George Cowan design men science Somehow, the agenda has been put into the form of talking about a set of transitions from state A, the present, to a state B that's sustainable. The problem is that there is no such state. You have to assume that the transitions are going to continue forever and ever and ever. You have to talk about systems that are continuously dynamic, and that are embedded in environments that themselves are continuously dynamic. George Cowan transition forever talking Similar Authors Auguste Laurent chemist August Wilhelm von Hofmann chemist August Kekule chemist Ascanio Sobrero chemist Antoine Lavoisier chemist Antoine Bechamp chemist All Authors