Quotes About Pattern

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.

I would certainly say that my life, and perhaps human life in general, follows an intricate pattern of defining, declaring, struggling for, fighting for what we think of and treasure as the self. The inviolate self. This begins with our families: your parents are part of your cultural landscape, and they are also shaped by larger forces than them.

Most of the tree of life is effectively arranged.

I know the trend I would love to bring back is floral. I think that it's just so much fun, whether it's with shoes or outfits or even pants.

It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.

Music has always followed a cyclic trend.

One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.

I think that music is cyclical, and that trends happen and happen again.

....the perfect beauty of the pattern that each raindrop makes as it joins its puddle.

We fit the pieces of our life together in a pattern, but there is no image on the puzzlebox to guide us.

Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.

Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

What do you expect? Look here: we're dipping into History, like temporal tourists. People are generally obsessed by the surface of things – and rightly so! How often in your own Year do you find the daily newspapers filled with deep analyses of the Causes of History? How much of your own conversation is occupied with explanations as to the general pattern of life in 1873? …

Indeed, Walcott's discovery turned Darwin's anticipated bottom-up—or small changes first, big changes later—pattern on its head.

Yet the Precambrian strata of his day showed no signs of providing any obvious transitional forms, much less a well-articulated bottom-up pattern of animals representing lower taxa proliferating into forms exemplifying higher and higher taxonomic categories.

Yet we would not expect the neo-Darwinian mechanism of natural selection acting on random genetic mutations to produce the top-down pattern that we observe in the history of life following the Cambrian explosion.

with the Darwinian view for yet another reason. The Chengjiang discoveries intensify the top-down pattern of appearance

with the Darwinian view for yet another reason. The Chengjiang discoveries intensify the top-down pattern of appearance in which individual representatives of the higher taxonomic categories (phyla, subphyla, and classes) appear and only later diversify into the lower taxonomic categories (families, genera, and species).

If a substantive chance hypothesis necessarily negates or nullifies explanations involving physical-chemical necessity and design, then the presence of a pattern necessarily negates chance.

In any case, the discovery in China of chordates, and other previously undiscovered phyla in the Cambrian, only accentuates the puzzling top-down pattern of appearance that other Cambrian discoveries had previously established.

Such self-organization always begins the same way, or as researchers Scott Camazine et al. put it, "At a critical density a pattern arises within the system.

As R. C. learned from Edwards, truths that ignite the passion are both rational ("'Tis Rational") and biblical ("'Tis Biblical"). R. C. was both laying a foundation for his future teaching ministry and establishing a pattern that he would follow all of his life, a pattern of Bible study, not just Bible reading.

The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.