To seek not for end but for antecedents is the way of the physicist, who finds "causes" in what he has learned to recognise as fundamental properties, or inseparable concomitants, or unchanging laws, of matter and of energy.


On Growth and Form, Introductory (p. 6), At the University Press. 1945

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Quotes

To seek not for end but for antecedents is the way of the physicist, who finds causes in what he has learned to recognise as fundamental properties,...

To seek not for end but for antecedents is the way of the physicist, who finds causes in what he has learned to recognise as fundamental properties,...

To seek not for end but for antecedents is the way of the physicist, who finds causes in what he has learned to recognise as fundamental properties,...

To seek not for end but for antecedents is the way of the physicist, who finds causes in what he has learned to recognise as fundamental properties,...