Ruth D'Arcy Thompson Quotes

He Hovered, As It Were, On The Fringes Of Both The Scientific And The Classical Worlds, Making, Apparently, No Deep Impression On Either. Perhaps The Characteristics That He Inherited From D'Arcy The Elder Partly Accounted For This. Gifted, Volatile, Impulsive, And Individual, Neither Could Suffer A Fool Gladly, And They Spoke Their Minds Freely When Occasion Demanded And Sometimes When It Did Not. They Both Went Their Own Way; They Would Not 'run With The Pack'; They Despised The Instinct That Leads Men To Say What Others Say Because It Is Easier, Or Do As Others Do For Fear Of Being Thought Different. Alike In Demanding The Highest Standard Of Integrity In Behaviour And Work They Spared No Man Who Was Slovenly In Either; Critical Of Their Own Achievements They Were Equally So Of Other Men's.

Ruth D'Arcy Thompson Quotes: He Hovered, As It Were, On The Fringes Of Both The Scientific And The Classical Worlds, Making, Apparently, No Deep

Ruth D'Arcy Thompson Quotes: He Hovered, As It Were, On The Fringes Of Both The Scientific And The Classical Worlds, Making, Apparently, No Deep

Ruth D'Arcy Thompson Quotes: He Hovered, As It Were, On The Fringes Of Both The Scientific And The Classical Worlds, Making, Apparently, No Deep

Ruth D'Arcy Thompson Quotes: He Hovered, As It Were, On The Fringes Of Both The Scientific And The Classical Worlds, Making, Apparently, No Deep

Ruth D'Arcy Thompson Quotes: He Hovered, As It Were, On The Fringes Of Both The Scientific And The Classical Worlds, Making, Apparently, No Deep

Ruth D'Arcy Thompson Quotes: He Hovered, As It Were, On The Fringes Of Both The Scientific And The Classical Worlds, Making, Apparently, No Deep

Ruth D'Arcy Thompson Quotes: He Hovered, As It Were, On The Fringes Of Both The Scientific And The Classical Worlds, Making, Apparently, No Deep

Ruth D'Arcy Thompson Quotes: He Hovered, As It Were, On The Fringes Of Both The Scientific And The Classical Worlds, Making, Apparently, No Deep

Ruth D'Arcy Thompson Quotes: He Hovered, As It Were, On The Fringes Of Both The Scientific And The Classical Worlds, Making, Apparently, No Deep

Ruth D'Arcy Thompson Quotes: He Hovered, As It Were, On The Fringes Of Both The Scientific And The Classical Worlds, Making, Apparently, No Deep

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