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Patterns Quotes by Michael Shermer
- People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.
- Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.
- But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.
- Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.
- Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may…
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- Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation... — Seneca the Younger
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know… — Germaine Greer
- We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents… — Ezra Taft Benson
- All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control… — Isaiah Berlin
- Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action. — Constantin Brancusi