Patterns in Nature Quotes

“The combination of random branching and orderly underlying lattice creates the exquisite complexity of the snowflake, poised on the brink of chaos and minutely sensitive to tiny variations in the temperature and humidity of the air.”
― Philip Ball, Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does

“Pattern comes from the (partial) destruction of symmetry.... The more symmetry gets broken, the more subtle and elaborate the pattern.”
― Philip Ball, Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does