• 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.

    D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson: 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.
    D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1992). “On Growth and Form”, p.326, Cambridge University Press