Believe Quote by Gregory Bateson

My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and shapes, patterns…

— Marcus du Sautoy

In mathematics, if a pattern occurs, we can go on to ask, Why does it occur? What does it signify? And we can find…

— W. W. Sawyer

“The illusion that Nature … adopts the same complexity scale used by people … arises each time we face … configuration [space]…. The second…

— Judea Pearl

There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a…

— Celia Rees

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.

— Martin Fowler

I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

— Linus Pauling

Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are…

— Agnes Denes

I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

— James Purefoy

The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusion of…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Jan Peacock

There are those who hold that there is a pattern to all that is said and done in this world, that no thing happens…

— Jacqueline Carey

The mental pattern must always precede the material form.

— William Walker Atkinson