Able Quote by Philip Ball

“In biology you become accustomed to different ways data can represent itself. Salmon returning upstream and herd animals have very linear patterns. Birds follow…

— Andrew Mayne

Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or…

— Diane von Furstenberg

“A pattern is any distinctly organized sequence. Patterns occur everywhere in nature—the spiraling seeds of a sunflower, the hexagonal cells of a honeycomb, the…

— Dan Brown

What we're looking at is God's design, nature's template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down on a…

— Joel Salatin

When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to.

— Tana French

A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety…

— David A. Bednar

There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all…

— Lauren Beukes

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

There are only patterns. Patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns, patterns hidden by patterns, patterns within patterns.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Most [Shetland patterns] are fairly small and simple, as textile patterns go. Almost all are symmetrical, with eight smaller parts. As a result, most…

— Sheila McGregor

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

— Martin Fowler

I still believe pattern fascinates on its own. And three-sevenths of a pattern, or even a smaller fragment, can fascinate still more--get us really…

— Samuel R. Delany