We rise from the conception of form to an understanding of the forces which gave rise to it... in the representation of form we see a diagram of forces in equilibrium, and in the comparison of kindred forms we discern the magnitude and the direction of the forces which have sufficed to convert the one form into the other.


On Growth and Form (Volume 2), Chapter XVII (p. 1027)

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Quotes

We rise from the conception of form to an understanding of the forces which gave rise to it... in the representation of form we see a diagram of...

We rise from the conception of form to an understanding of the forces which gave rise to it... in the representation of form we see a diagram of...

We rise from the conception of form to an understanding of the forces which gave rise to it... in the representation of form we see a diagram of...

We rise from the conception of form to an understanding of the forces which gave rise to it... in the representation of form we see a diagram of...