D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Quotes
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.
The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.
It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.
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.
…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of theories and the correctness of experiments.
