7 Quotes by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson



  • Author D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
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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 are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.

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  • Author D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
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    Sagging wrinkles, hanging breasts and many another sign of age are part of gravitation’s slow relentless handiwork.

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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 a big rat.

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    This is a great theme. Boltzmann, writing in 1886 on the second law of thermodynamics, declared that available energy was the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.

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