Quotes About Patterns

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.

Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

History is the science of what never happens twice.

There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the best comedy goes beyond the rules.

Philosophically, mathematics is not a part of science. Mathematics studies patterns, science studies nature

At extremely high processing speeds we are able to find patterns of order in what other people would perceive as chaos.

Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. Existence only occurs through the act of perception.

A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

It's not dystopia to think history will repeat itself.

We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things.

We chase after more exciting others, not in the belief that life with them will be more harmonious, but out of an unconscious sense that it will be reassuringly familiar in its patterns of frustration. He

The terms avoidant and anxious are hardly typical in a love story, but if Romantic is taken to mean "helpful to the progress of love," then they turn out to be among the most romantic words Kirsten and Rabih will ever stumble upon, for they enable them to grasp patterns that have been destructively at work between them every day of their married lives.

There are interesting patterns evident in this particular back-to-back stemplot, but we will defer speculating about them until the next chapter.

Everything is made of stories. They've all happened before, in similar circumstances. It's like a circle. It goes round and round and round.

Our tendency to think that we're not predictable is probably one of our more predictable traits.

human memory is short, and history always repeats itself.

human memory is short, and history always repeats itself." ? Devdutt Pattanaik, Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata

seven and fourteen