Quotes About Mathematical Patterns

#1. Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well.

Gary L. Francione

#2. The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

Malcolm Gladwell

#3. The mind is complicated and you can't trace the roots of its processes, but there is something about mathematical and algorithmic patterns that I like to recognize in things.

Aleksandar Hemon

#4. One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.

Steven Strogatz

#5. The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

Amiri Baraka

#6. It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

Robert Harris

#7. He was leaning back against the door watching me with hooded eyes. He wasn't throwing sarcastic barbs at me or ignoring me, he was just watching me.

Jay Crownover

#8. I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.

Hari Kunzru

#9. Drama often obscures the real issues

Jenny Holzer

#10. Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#11. Its easier to start a global business than a local one, make your business one where you can work from anywhere in the world

Roger James Hamilton

#12. The weight of great power crushes the goodness of the man who rules and the honesty of those who are ruled.

Roman Baldorioty De Castro

#13. All high mathematics serves to do is to beget higher mathematics.

Ashim Shanker

#14. Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.

Gore Vidal

#15. I prefer watching people on a screen, and I've had the most pleasurable people-watching experiences at the Palace Cinema in Balwyn.

Morris Gleitzman

#16. Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.

Ian Stewart

#17. As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.

Brandon Boyd