On Growth and Form Quotes

“…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.”
― D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On Growth and Form

“Everything is what it is because it got that way.”
― D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On Growth and Form

“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.”
― D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On Growth and Form