Goethe, lover of nature as he was, ruled mathematics out of place in natural history.

— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Goethe, lover of nature as he was, ruled mathematics out of place in natural history." in the context of "D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On Growth and Form (1917)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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