Patterns Quote by Robert M. Pirsig Download Open image “Science values static patterns.” — Robert M. Pirsig ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Patterns Science Static Values
All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things. — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts. — Robert MacArthur Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Scientists explore the physical world for REPRODUCIBLE PATTERNS, which they represent by MODELS and organize into THEORIES according to LAWS. — David Hestenes Copy Share Image
“Science is entirely dependent on constants. Anything that is not constant (natural disasters, poor construction, or other human factors) is nearly impossible to include… — Stephen and Tiffany Domena Copy Share Image
Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems. — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is. — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured originally; but… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
We who cherish science should be careful to distinguish when we are doing science and when we are extrapolating from it — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
“And from time to time you find your “county road” takes you onto a two-rutter and then a single rutter and then into a… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“I started to roll over for more sleep but heard a rooster crowing and then became aware we are on vacation and there is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say:… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Of the value traps, the most widespread and pernicious is value rigidity. This is an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Historically mystics have claimed that for a true understanding of reality metaphysics is too “scientific”. Metaphysics is not reality. Metaphysics is names about reality.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“What’s emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by the inadequacy of existing… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
Memories seem to surface in no particular order, with no time attached. Yesterday can seem as distant as last year. My life now consists… — Linda Olsson Copy Share Image
Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Studying Sol's interior by looking for analogous patterns on its incandescent face is known as helioseismology, an active - if largely unpronounceable - research… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
When we have the same thought again, the line of the original thought is deepened, causing what's called a memory trace. With each repetition… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
