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Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is the only bird… — Martin Gardner
The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry. — Iannis Xenakis
This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or… — Jack Vance
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes;… — Unknown Author
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art. — George Bernard Shaw
We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future,… — Frances E. Willard
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the… — Eric Temple Bell
...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary… — John Herschel
As the flower turns to the sun, that the bright beams may aid in perfecting its beauty and symmetry, so should we turn to the… — Ellen G. White
You can't chop down a symmetry — Jane Siberry
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art. — B.K.S. Iyengar
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory… — Murray Gell-Mann
Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance is far more… — Jan Tschichold
We find, therefore, under this orderly arrangement, a wonderful symmetry in the universe, and a definite relation of harmony in the motion and magnitude of… — Johannes Kepler
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the… — Octavio Paz
Symmetry is what we see at a glance. — Blaise Pascal
My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination. This process… — Patti Smith
The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts. — Edith Wharton
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. — Aristotle
Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to everybody now, and… — Richard P. Feynman
Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth. — Blaise Pascal
I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it is… — Michael Jordan
The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups. — Steven Weinberg
Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry. — Larry Wall
Symmetry looks good to us; we want more of it. — Susan Messing

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