The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty. — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the laws of… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
“…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of theories and… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
Sagging wrinkles, hanging breasts and many another sign of age are part of gravitation's slow relentless handiwork. — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest. — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent. — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
