“...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
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
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
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
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
“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
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle 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
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 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
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 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
“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
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
“I’ve been the queen of symmetry and everything had to be in identical balance, no matter how you looked at it. But… — Taryn Leigh 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
Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand… — Tsung-Dao Lee Copy Share Image
The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce. — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Man is all symmetry Full of proportions, one limb to another, And all to all the world besides; Each part may call… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
“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
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
“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
This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
We find, therefore, under this orderly arrangement, a wonderful symmetry in the universe, and a definite relation of harmony in the motion… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I know that I'm an animal that displays bilateral symmetry. I understand that one side should be the mirror of the other,… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
In theory, affirmative action certainly has all the moral symmetry that fairness requires. It is reformist and corrective, even repentent and redemptive. — Shelby Steele 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
So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
“In it's purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on… — Emily Thorne 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
