“A most stimulating thought principle, framed in a nice and lively personal story. What I find most exciting is the exceptionally broad perspective that Bejan adopts for developing his concepts. Design in Nature is a fascinating read.”

—EWALD WEIBEL, Professor Emeritus of Anatomy, University of Bern

“With wide-ranging examples and the iconic pictures to go with them, Bejan illustrates that nature is inherently an outstanding designer of flow configurations, which raises philosophic issues beyond the remit of thermodynamics. Is the distinction between animate and inanimate blurred by their common constructal design? This and many more issues are raised by Professor Bejan’s distinguished and original work, fittingly presented in Design in Nature.”

—JEFFERY LEWINS, Deputy Praelector, Magdalene College, Cambridge University

“Bejan masterfully unifies—under a deep common law—physics, chemistry, biology and even part of the social sciences. His treatment of natural design, flow systems and complex order as spontaneously arising from flow optimization is novel, powerful and highly plausible.”

—MASSIMO PIATTELLI-PALMARINI, author of What Darwin Got Wrong and Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Arizona