Best Symmetry Sayings
105 Symmetry quotes by 87 unique authors
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Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty...
— Winston Churchill
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Symmetry may have its appeal but it is inherently stale. Some kind of imbalance is behind every transformation.
— Marcelo Gleiser
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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
— Victor Hugo
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When you look into a mirror it is not yourself you see, but a kind of apish error posed in fearful symmetry kool uoy nehW…
— John Updike
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The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the…
— Edith Wharton
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Reality favors symmetry.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically,…
— Frank Ocean
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If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real…
— Dave Van Ronk
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I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these…
— Tom Shadyac
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By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art.…
— Peter York
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There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more or…
— Edouard Manet
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply…
— Bayard Taylor
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The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings them to light;…
— John Paul Caponigro
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Digital mechanics predicts that for every continuous symmetry of physics there will be some microscopic process that violates that symmetry.
— Edward Fredkin
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There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other.
— Edouard Manet
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I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.
— Kevin McCloud
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Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself,…
— Frank Ocean
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
— Camille Paglia
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It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives…
— Henri Poincare
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Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition…
— Paul Rand
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The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest…
— Herbert Read
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The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
— Paul Valery
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Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
— Derek Walcott
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I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
— Charles Lamb
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Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines. A lovely eloquence,…
— Clive Barker
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