Eadem mutata resurgo

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Eadem mutata resurgo is a Latin phrase that literally translates to "Although changed, I shall arise the same." The phrase was first known to be used by Jakob Bernoulli (1654-1705), a member of the famous Swiss mathematical family, and appears on his tombstone in Basel. Bernoulli was referring to the continual appearance of the logarithmic spiral in nature, such as with the curves of the Nautilus shell.

The College of St Hild and St Bede at the University of Durham adopted this phrase for its signatory logo, as well as the Collège de 'pataphysique.

This phrase also appears in the outstanding 2004 Rudy Rucker Science Fiction novel "Frek & the Elixir", in a scene where the Orpolese cuttlefish, Professor Bumby, is assisting the protagonist, 12 year-old Frek Huggins, in his escape from the local authority's(Gov) puffball control center in Stun City. In this instance the translation is worded slightly differently, "The same, yet changed, I rise again." Eadem Mutata Resurgo, indeed!