Philip Ball Professions : Science writer Born : 1962 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Philip Ball What is striking is these things [patterns in nature, e.g. fish stripes] do look like something that has been crafted. We are conditioned to think that a pattern needs a patterner and so at first glance it seems incredible to us that nature is able to do this, without any sort of blueprint, without any sort of plan. These patterns organise themselves, that is the amazing thing. Philip Ball stripes patterns thinking Similar Authors Ivars Peterson science-writer Dava Sobel science-writer Colin Tudge science-writer Carl Zimmer science-writer Grant Allen science-writer Eric Chaisson science-writer All Authors
