“I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid - a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry - Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... The existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that Euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."” DifferentFormScienceUsedTermChallengesLevelsExistenceStudyHigherDegreesStandardsClaimsPatternsComplexityGeometryExhibitsDifferent LevelsFragmentedEuclidMorphology Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“If the human intellect is allowed to impose a preconceived pattern on society, if our powers of reasoning are allowed to lay claim to a monopoly of creative effort... then we must not be surprised if society, as such, ceases to function as a creative force.” IfsHumansForceEffortCreativeFunctionClaimsLaysPatternsIntellectCeaseReasoningMonopoly Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.” ArtIdeasSpiritualTeacherStudentsEmptyClaimsPatternsFakeMartial ArtsRitualSpiritual LifeTested Author:Sam Harris
“Change always follows the same pattern. If you come up with something new they try and put you off.If that doesn't work they call you stark raving bonkers.If that doesn't work they lock you up like the suffragettes.Then, after a pause, the change happensand you can't find anyone that doesn't claim to have been fighting for it with you.” IfsTryingHas BeensFightingClaimsPatternsCome UpSomething NewLocksPausesStarksSuffragettes Author:Tony Benn
“For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy, claiming her emotionally; then, when she began to claim in return, running away. And the better a woman was, the sooner he would begin to run. I knew this with my intuition, and yet I sat there in my dark room, looking at the hazed wet brilliance of the purple London night sky, longing with my whole being.” MenWholeRunningNightDarkRoomsSkyReturnClaimsLongingPatternsIntuitionLondonSatRunning AwayWetPurpleBrillianceNight SkyDark Room Author:Doris Lessing
“Shame usually follows a pattern—a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we believe the lie that our pain and failure is who we are—not just something we’ve done, or had done to us—and we experience shame. And finally, our feelings of shame trap us into thinking that we can never recover—that, in fact, we don’t even deserve to.” ThinkingFirstsBelieveSelfDoneFactsFeelingsPainLyingEventsDeserveClaimsShamePatternsPainfulWho We AreCyclesTraps Book:The Christian Atheist: Believing in God But Living as If He Doesn't Exist Source: The Christian Atheist: Believing in God But Living as If He Doesn't Exist
“I accept perfect health as the natural state of my being. I now consciously release any mental patterns within me that could express as dis-ease in any way. Perfect health is my Divine right, and I claim it now.” WayStatesNaturalPerfectAcceptingDivineClaimsPatternsReleaseEaseAffirmationDivine Right Author:Louise Hay
“I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition. ... We have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.” WorldHumansWellsSoulBodySpiritualScienceBeliefTermExistenceBrainMysteryMaterialsActivityAccountsClaimsPatternsRecognitionMaterialismSuperstitionsMaterial WorldSpiritual BeingsReductionism Author:John Eccles
“Whether we fail or not, we shall not be kept from continuing our mission by those who claim it can't be done. ...Indeed the whole of agricultural and livestock science and even human medicine, if sound, is merely the business of discovering certain natural patterns already in existence, putting together the various pieces and discovering their relationship to the whole universe; indeed such a process is science itself” IfsHumansDoneWholeTogetherCertainUniverseProcessSoundNaturalExistenceEnvironmentPiecesFailingClaimsMedicinePatternsVariousMissionsDiscoveringContinuingLivestock Author:Louis Bromfield