• We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.

    D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson: We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.
    D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (2014). “On Growth and Form”, p.16, Cambridge University Press