Symmetry Quotes · Page 2

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

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Kerry James Marshall

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

— Norm MacDonald

“Humans often assumed symmetry and equality where none existed.”

— Robert Galbraith

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Lucie Brock-Broido

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

— Kerry James Marshall

“How truly hard is to keep up Symmetry between Head, Heart & tongue?”

— Manjula Jyothiprakash

It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order,…

— Henri Poincare

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

— Edward Fredkin

Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not…

— Nicole Krauss

I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf.…

— Helen Keller

Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree…

— Steven Weinberg

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child…

— Frances E. Willard

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…

— Audrey Niffenegger

...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we…

— John Herschel

“Symmetry suggests one myth, or significance: the drinking of writers coming from too much concentration, in solitude, upon feelings expressed for or…

— Robert Pinsky

We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily ... But although the…

— Steven Weinberg

Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously…

— Andrew Solomon

“No behavior has an infinite set of possibilities. Think of a lightning strike, although the state space is very high the bolt…

— Rick Delmonico

We called the new [fourth] quark the "charmed quark" because we were pleased, and fascinated by the symmetry it brought to the…

— Anonymous

“So our problem is to explain where symmetry comes from. Why is nature so nearly symmetrical? No one has any idea why.…

— Richard P. Feynman

What I remember best from those times is the music itself. When it succeded, we took hold of the audience's attention, working…

— Andromeda Romano-Lax

Frequently, we busily search for group service projects, which are surely needed and commendable, when quiet, personal service is also urgently needed.…

— Neal A. Maxwell

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

— Edouard Manet

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

— Warren G. Bennis

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

— Charley Boorman

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

— William Blake

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

— Gore Vidal

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

— Amy Poehler

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

— Lawrence M. Krauss

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Edith Wharton

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

— Steven Weinberg

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

— Nicole Krauss

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Shane Koyczan

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— B.K.S. Iyengar