We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“Seeing all life in perfect symmetry. Perceiving each day with righteous clarity. Living each moment in purposed reality. Believing each day is… — S. Tarr Copy Share Image
Symmetry does mean something different for physicists than for members of the public. It means that an object or a theory does… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance… — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
“...beauty is not symmetry of parts- that's so impotent -as Mishima says, beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, & finally destroys...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle… — Marie-Luise Gothein Copy Share Image
My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“With a digital display having few pixels, symmetries are common but there is very little meaning because the image is very course… — Rick Delmonico Copy Share Image
You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
“A common example from physics is of a pencil balanced on its point. It is symmetric, in that while it is balanced… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny,… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
“A kind of bias I share says that if a human thinks symmetry is important it may or may not be, but… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
“Yet, despite the symmetry of the laws of Nature, we observe the outcomes of those symmetrical laws to be assymetrical states and… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
I need to tell the things that are important but which don't make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
“A good example of the archetypal ideas which the archetypes produce are natural numbers or integers. With the aid of the integers… — K. V. Laurikainen Copy Share Image
Hours later, Adam propped himself up on an elbow and stared down at Gabrielle, pondering what made beauty. He thought he was… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Being out on the ocean seems like a different world to being in the mountains and the backcountry, but there is also… — Travis Rice Copy Share Image
Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form.… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
God has sovereignly pulled back the curtain on His glory. He has disclosed Himself on the platform of both creation and redemption… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Geometry is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to see all… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
If only-if only, Hastings, you would part your hair in the middle instead of at the side! What a difference it would… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The Big Bang has gone away, but as far as Super String, that is suspicious for me. It all starts out with… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
“Each of the most basic physical laws that we know of corresponds to some invariance, which in turn is equivalent to a… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and… — Misty Upham Copy Share Image
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
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