Top 12 Mathematical Pattern Quotes
#1. It had been well known for twenty years that the distribution of large and small earthquakes followed a particular mathematical pattern, precisely the same scaling pattern that seemed to govern the distribution of personal incomes in a free-market economy.
James Gleick
#2. How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that are present in any society as a mathematical pattern.
Edmund Leach
#3. I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits, that I'll find something really incredible. Not just a pattern, not just an order, but a sign. A mathematical sign.
Andrew Schneider
#4. After all, perhaps dirt isn't really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe.
Agatha Christie
#6. It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.
Amish Tripathi
#7. It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave.
Trudi Canavan
#10. She ignored my observation. This generally happens with me. Show me a woman, I sometimes say, and I will show you someone who is going to ignore my observations.
P.G. Wodehouse
#11. I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#12. Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.
Ian Stewart
