Evolution of Form, Ecology of Function

"Hypotheses non fingo." [I frame no hypotheses.] — Sir Isaac Newton

"Civilization is the art of creating useless needs." — Léo Errera, 1908.

"Art and science encounter each other when they seek exactitude." — Étienne-Jules Marey

"About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying that at this rate a man might as well go into a gravel-pit and count the pebbles and describe the colours. How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!" — Charles Darwin

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"Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is…

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