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Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually…

— Tsung-Dao Lee

“One of Nature's deep secrets is the fact that the outcomes of the laws of Nature do not have to possess the same symmetries…

— John D. Barrow

“A common example from physics is of a pencil balanced on its point. It is symmetric, in that while it is balanced on its…

— Lee Smolin

“Yet, despite the symmetry of the laws of Nature, we observe the outcomes of those symmetrical laws to be assymetrical states and structures.”

— John D. Barrow

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

— Freeman Dyson

Symmetry principles are principles governing the laws of nature that say those laws look the same if you change your point of view in…

— Steven Weinberg

Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree of symmetry…

— Steven Weinberg

... it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without their having…

— Richard P. Feynman

All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“The phenomenon of symmetry breaking reveals something deeply significant about the workings of the universe. The laws of Nature are unerringly symmetrical. They do…

— John D. Barrow

This is not what I thought physics was about when I started out: I learned that the idea is to explain nature in terms…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a…

— Murray Gell-Mann