Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I use the Scriptures, not as an arsenal to be resorted to only for arms and weapons, but as a matchless temple,… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“<...> out of love of symmetry, just as people put two vases above a fireplace.” — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner. If you can't win, make the… — John Landy 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
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
Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference... — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
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
There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular… — Iannis Xenakis 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
“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
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
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
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
As the people of the United States enjoy the great merit of having established a system of Government on the basis of… — James Madison 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
“Even if a particle could travel backward in time, information could not. Retrocausality will be replaced by something more sophisticated. There are… — Rick Delmonico Copy Share Image
Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about. — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
