Nature is thrifty in all its actions.............

The laws of movement and of 

rest deduced from 

this principle being precisely 

the same as those observed in nature, 

we can admire the application of it 

to all phenomena. 

The movement of animals, 

the vegetative growth of plants are

only its consequences; and 

the spectacle of the universe becomes 

so much the grander, 

so much more beautiful, 

the worthier of its Author, 

when one knows that 

a small number of laws, 

most wisely established, 

suffice for all movements.

-- Pierre Louis Maupertuis.(1698 - 1759) 

French mathematician.
philosopher and man of letters.