Quotes by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On Growth and Form

“Everything is what it is because it got that way.”

“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.”

“…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.”