This photos of snowflakes seem to be a commentary on how we should observe every particular in science before we come up with a whole. By ignoring the particulars of a thing, we are in a sense refusing scientific inquiry into fully understanding something. And, we can only have full scientific knowledge if we strive towards understanding something fully. Even if understanding fully is not obtained, it still needs to be the goal of science. He seems to be presenting a scientific method: understand the particulars to fully understand the whole (a sort of Baconian approach).