Bias Quote by Christopher Knight & Alan Butler

“One way of thinking about science is that it’s a check against the natural human tendency to see patterns that might not be there.…

— Jason Fagone

“Our minds are wired by nature to detect patterns.”

— Mark Frost

We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

One of the best things about humans is we recognize patterns, so we get things like science, music, philosophy. One of the worst things…

— James Marsters

Now, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's the sensitivity…

— Jonas Salk

“Sights, smells, temperature changes—all sorts of stuff. We notice it without consciously thinking about it. He says we may not be paying attention, but…

— Trenton Lee Stewart

Naturally, patterns emerge through repetition, and repetition yields up a type of discovery that reveals everything about itself, especially its sorry limits.

— Jan Peacock

“Science is not just about seeing, it’s about measuring, preferably with something that’s not your own eyes, which are inextricably conjoined with the baggage…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.

— Ernst Mach

The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd…

— Arthur David Ritchie

So you look for patterns because that's what humans do to try and make sense of things. In hope of some divine order. And…

— Iain S Thomas

“Discernment could be likened to distinguishing a light in the distance.”

— Lisa Bevere