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> [Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the laws of physics that their particles have been moved, moulded and conformed. They are no exceptions to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-arcy-wentworth-thompson/cell-and-tissue-shell-and-bone-leaf-and-flower-are-so-many-portions/)

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## More by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

> [Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the laws of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-arcy-wentworth-thompson/cell-and-tissue-shell-and-bone-leaf-and-flower-are-so-many-portions/)

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> [We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-arcy-wentworth-thompson/we-call-a-thing-big-or-little-with-reference-to-what-it-is-wont-to-be/)

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> [The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-arcy-wentworth-thompson/the-harmony-of-the-world-is-made-manifest-in-form-and-number-and-the/)

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> [Numerical precision is the very soul of science.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-arcy-wentworth-thompson/numerical-precision-is-the-very-soul-of-science/)

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> [“…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of theories and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-arcy-wentworth-thompson/numerical-precision-is-the-very-soul-of-science-and-its-attainment/)

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> [Sagging wrinkles, hanging breasts and many another sign of age are part of gravitation's slow relentless handiwork.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-arcy-wentworth-thompson/sagging-wrinkles-hanging-breasts-and-many-another-sign-of-age-are/)

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> [It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-arcy-wentworth-thompson/it-is-success-that-colours-all-in-life-success-makes-fools-admir-d/)

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> [The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-arcy-wentworth-thompson/the-perfection-of-mathematical-beauty-is-such-that-whatsoever-is-most/)

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