Top 168 Symmetry Quotes & Sayings

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is the only bird we have who often does this. If it has a nest nearby, the cardinal thinks there is another cardinal trying to invade its territory. It never realizes it is attacking its own reflection. Cardinals don't know much about mirror symmetry!

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.

Digital mechanics predicts that for every continuous symmetry of physics there will be some microscopic process that violates that symmetry.

We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity

I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Americans use a combination of circular symmetry and fourfold symmetry.

I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me.

If the chain symmetry is maintained in the crystal lattice, the possible occurrence of different space groups is considerably restricted.

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection of the mathematical reasoning involved and contrast it with the complex and far-reaching physical consequences, a deep sense of respect for the power of the symmetry laws never fails to develop.

What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration.

In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry.

Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.

Symmetry is for God, not for us.

Understand stakeholder symmetry: Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry.

The Big Bang has gone away, but as far as Super String, that is suspicious for me. It all starts out with the notion of Big Bang, which if it were true, starts out with incredibly high temperatures. So they think [we] need to get these high temperatures for this broken symmetry; all this broken symmetry reunited, and we do not have enough energy in the whole galaxy to get to those temperatures, to prove their point. To me, that is the single flaw in Super String theory.

Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.

The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

I know that I'm an animal that displays bilateral symmetry. I understand that one side should be the mirror of the other, and that human perceptions of beauty are intimately associated with symmetry. For example, I am very handsome.

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

Humanity enveloped in entropy desperately seeking symmetry for peace of mind

Don't confuse symmetry with balance.

Reality favors symmetry.

I was an ambidextrous child, and the symmetry of roller skating was a welcome respite from my awkwardness with physical activities that involved a ball or a racket.

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

There's a symmetry of blissfulness about Mongolia. It was a real privilege to be there.

Symmetry may have its appeal but it is inherently stale. Some kind of imbalance is behind every transformation.

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

Symmetry looks good to us; we want more of it.

I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry.

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

My goal is always to bring a sense of balance, symmetry, and proportion to each individual face. The brows are an essential starting point.

In theory, affirmative action certainly has all the moral symmetry that fairness requires. It is reformist and corrective, even repentent and redemptive.

Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.

Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree of symmetry was hidden from us in everyday life. The physicist's task is to find this deeper symmetry.

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.

The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

You can't chop down a symmetry

Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.

There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other.

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

The law of right-left symmetry was used in classical physics but was not of any great practical importance there. One reason for this derives from the fact that right-left symmetry is a discrete symmetry, unlike rotational symmetry, which is continuous.

Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

The biggest conceptual change over the last 100 years in the way physicists think about the world is symmetry.

Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.