
Roger Bacon had shown how easy it is, and how vain, to survey the operations of Nature and idly refer her wondrous works to chance or accident, or to the immediate interposition of God.
Д’Арси Уэнтуорт Томпсон, «О росте и форме» (гл. I), 1917
Источник: Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth, On Growth and Form https://archive.org/details/ongrowthform00thom, Cambridge : University Press; New York: Macmillan, 1945, p. 8.