Science in Quotes: Physics and Biology

(Stephanie Lam/The Epoch Times)

Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the laws of physics that their particles have been moved, moulded and confirmed. They are no exception to the rule that God always geometrizes. Their problems of form are in the first instance mathematical problems, their problems of growth are essentially physical problems, and the morphologist is, ipso facto, a student of physical science.

—D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, in his book “On Growth and Form.”