Quotes about Symmetry

Symmetry is what we see at a glance. Votes: 6

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference... Votes: 6

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect. Votes: 6

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. Votes: 6

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. Votes: 6

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world. Votes: 6

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. Votes: 6

Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details. Votes: 6

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself. Votes: 5

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art. Votes: 4

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. Votes: 4

...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none. Votes: 4

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? Votes: 4

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. Votes: 4

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. Votes: 4

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 Votes: 4

The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges... Votes: 4

Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually they have become the backbone of our theoretical formulation of physical laws. Votes: 4

I need to tell the things that are important but which don't make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would destroy symmetry or narrative pace. This is my personal belief about what it means to write nonfiction. Votes: 4

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. Votes: 4

If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.... Votes: 4

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness. Votes: 4

Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry. Votes: 3

Symmetry is for God, not for us. Votes: 3

Symmetry looks good to us; we want more of it. Votes: 3

Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy. Votes: 3

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns. Votes: 3

Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. Votes: 3

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about. Votes: 3

Symmetry may have its appeal but it is inherently stale. Some kind of imbalance is behind every transformation. Votes: 3

Om (AUM) the Divine song is at the same time Symmetry, Supersymmetry, broken Symmetry, and the unbroken Symmetry of Nature. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Sometimes a thing is—too much—and it has to be isolated and put away." Martin shrugged. "So what's in the boxes is—emotion. In the form of objects."-Her Fearful Symmetry Votes: 3

Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry. Votes: 2

I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's. Votes: 2

I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me. Votes: 2

If the chain symmetry is maintained in the crystal lattice, the possible occurrence of different space groups is considerably restricted. Votes: 2

We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry. Votes: 2

The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it. Votes: 2

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. Votes: 2

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception. Votes: 2

Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties. Votes: 2

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised. Votes: 2

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically. Votes: 2

Reality favors symmetry. Votes: 0

Don't confuse symmetry with balance. Votes: 0

You can't chop down a symmetry Votes: 0

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms Votes: 0

Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another. Votes: 0

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty... Votes: 0

Humanity enveloped in entropy desperately seeking symmetry for peace of mind Votes: 0

The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts. Votes: 0

Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form. Votes: 0

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups. Votes: 0

There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. Votes: 0

We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity Votes: 0

Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art. Votes: 0

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown. Votes: 0

The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain. Votes: 0

Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape. Votes: 0

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox. Votes: 0

Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered. Votes: 0

The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce. Votes: 0

The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry. Votes: 0

The design of a temple depends on symmetry , the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect. Votes: 0

What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration. Votes: 0

Digital mechanics predicts that for every continuous symmetry of physics there will be some microscopic process that violates that symmetry. Votes: 0

Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence. Votes: 0

Everybody has two legs, two lobes to the brain which is why we tend to be interested in symmetry, always balancing things. Votes: 0

The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry. Votes: 0

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts. Votes: 0

In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry. Votes: 0

Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making. Votes: 0

Todd added bourbons to the custards creams on the plate, arranging them in two neat yellow and brown rows, his annoyance expressed through the symmetry of biscuits. Votes: 0

...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring. Votes: 0

Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality. Votes: 0

No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance. Votes: 0

The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made mechanics analytical; I mean Euler. Votes: 0

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance is far more optically effective than symmetry. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it is always interrupted by the basket. Votes: 0

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success. Votes: 0

Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures. Votes: 0

There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more or less crooked nose and an irregular mouth. Votes: 0

This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity. Votes: 0

The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In this great personality of mankind, God became man. Votes: 0

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order. Votes: 0

The ancient traditions, even Christianity, say God is Love. There is symmetry here. The fundamental step where you get into this transcendent state is this feeling of ebullience, love and caring and unity. Votes: 0

What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements. Votes: 0