Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry. — Fabiola Gianotti Copy Share Image
I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's. — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“In harmony there is nothing strange. And life is a vast harmony. I've understood this. But, you see- the moulded whimsy of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
No system of education is complete that does not harden the hands and toughen muscles, while it is also develops the intellect… — Alexander Clark Copy Share Image
The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
“Katya, for Lev, is a vortex, by turn alluring and animal, icy and disaffected, often in one same day. Katya is symmetry-breaking.” — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“It is 23.32 p.m. I still believe in symmetry, so this will be the last part. You've reached an end if you… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Much of the structure of the world, both social and physical, is a consequence of the requirement that the world, in its… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art knows no happier moment than the opportunity to show the symmetry of an extreme, during that moment of spheric harmony when… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“It is shown that the golden ratio plays a prominent role in the dimensions of all objects which exhibit five-fold symmetry. It… — Richard A. Dunlap Copy Share Image
The libertarian approach is a very symmetrical one: the non-aggression principle does not rule out force, but only the initiation of force.… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions; it is the order, the symmetry, the interior beauty of… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of… — Alante Kavaite Copy Share Image
As the flower turns to the sun, that the bright beams may aid in perfecting its beauty and symmetry, so should we… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills… — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
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… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
We will have to abandon the philosophy of Democritus and the concept of elementary particles. We should accept instead the concept of… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have… — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
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… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When you look into a mirror it is not yourself you see, but a kind of apish error posed in fearful symmetry… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Symmetry principles are principles governing the laws of nature that say those laws look the same if you change your point of… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“A wall is happy when it is well designed, when it rests firmly on its foundation, when its symmetry balances its part… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image