Appearance Quote by John Stuart Mill

“We are pattern seekers, believers in a coherent world, in which regularities appear not by accident but as a result of mechanical causality or…

— Kahneman

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 about recognizing patterns. [...] Everything depends on the ground rules of the observer: if someone refuses to look at obvious patterns because…

— Christopher Knight & Alan Butler

“Similarly, when it is not the past that we are studying, but some set of phenomena relating to a principle still active, we expect…

— Marc Bloch

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

“our difficulty in accurately recognizing random arrangements of events can lead us to believe things that are not true—to believe something is systematic, ordered,…

— Thomas Gilovich

It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous facts.

— Anonymous

If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing…

— Arthur Koestler

The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought…

— William Whewell

Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that…

— Marvin Minsky

Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither…

— John Herschel

Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than…

— James Jeans