Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Understand stakeholder symmetry: Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
There's a symmetry of blissfulness about Mongolia. It was a real privilege to be there. — Charley Boorman Copy Share Image
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? — William Blake 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
The ancient traditions, even Christianity, say God is Love. There is symmetry here. The fundamental step where you get into this transcendent… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order,… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf.… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Digital mechanics predicts that for every continuous symmetry of physics there will be some microscopic process that violates that symmetry. — Edward Fredkin Copy Share Image
Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
We are not held accountable for how the economy ravages Congo. Governments aren't held accountable for foreign policies that they exercise there.… — Anjan Sundaram 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
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
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
The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in… — Victor Hugo 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
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes,… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we… — John Herschel 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
“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
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 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
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
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
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The human brain has left and right brain symmetry with its own nature and can process information which initially appears to have… — Tony Buzan 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