Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Golden Ratio is a powerful mathematical constant woven into the very fabric of biology. It is the unique visual tension between comforting… — Darrin Crescenzi 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
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
Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“Symmetry suggests one myth, or significance: the drinking of writers coming from too much concentration, in solitude, upon feelings expressed for or… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily ... But although the… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“No behavior has an infinite set of possibilities. Think of a lightning strike, although the state space is very high the bolt… — Rick Delmonico Copy Share Image
We called the new [fourth] quark the "charmed quark" because we were pleased, and fascinated by the symmetry it brought to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain… — Daphne Sheldrick Copy Share Image
“Yet each, in itself—this was the uncanny, the anti-organic, the life-denying character of them all—each of them was absolutely symmetrical, icily regular… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Symmetry is only a property of dead things. Did you ever see a tree or a mountain that was symmetrical? It’s fine… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
“The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always… — Pierre Schaeffer 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
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
I think there was something started under my father that I appreciate that it's time to end, and I like the symmetry… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt,… — Paul Rand 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 phenomenon of symmetry breaking reveals something deeply significant about the workings of the universe. The laws of Nature are unerringly symmetrical.… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and… — Peter York Copy Share Image
An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of a single… — Linus Pauling 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right… — Murray Gell-Mann 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
I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and… — Anna Julia Cooper 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
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