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Originally Posted by covingtoncat73
"'Everything has its pattern,' Freddy put in. 'If you find it, the great can be contained within the small.'"
Clive Barker, Weaveworld
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Which leads fairly naturally to:
"Exploring this set I certainly never had the feeling of invention. I never had the feeling that my imagination was rich enough to invent all those extraordinary things on discovering them. They were there, even though nobody had seen them before."
-- Benoit Mandelbrot
(Quote borrowed from
Wikipedia, apparently transcribed from an interview with Arthur C. Clarke.)