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105 Symmetry quotes by 87 unique authors

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? — William Blake
You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school,… — Katherine Applegate
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle
Sometimes a thing is—too much—and it has to be isolated and put away." Martin shrugged. "So what's in the boxes is—emotion. In the form of… — Audrey Niffenegger
Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap… — Stephen Fry
...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none. — Nicole Krauss
The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire… — Victor Hugo
If only-if only, Hastings, you would part your hair in the middle instead of at the side! What a difference it would make to the… — Agatha Christie
Don't confuse symmetry with balance. — Tom Robbins
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 is the branches,… — Gabrielle Zevin
Hours later, Adam propped himself up on an elbow and stared down at Gabrielle, pondering what made beauty. He thought he was beginning to understand.… — Karen Marie Moning
A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and… — Jasper Fforde
Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often… — Robert Wright
No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All… — John Ruskin
Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries. — Khaled Hosseini
Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a… — Aristotle
Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with quaternions, and that… — Benjamin Peirce
Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend… — Hermann Weyl
No system of education is complete that does not harden the hands and toughen muscles, while it is also develops the intellect and enlarges the… — Alexander Clark
God has sovereignly pulled back the curtain on His glory. He has disclosed Himself on the platform of both creation and redemption that we might… — Sam Storms
We called the new [fourth] quark the "charmed quark" because we were pleased, and fascinated by the symmetry it brought to the subnuclear world. "Charm"… — Sheldon Lee Glashow
I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all… — Ron Eglash
Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry. — Fabiola Gianotti
Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between… — Pierre Schaeffer
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle

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