Best Symmetry Quotations
105 Symmetry quotes by 87 unique authors
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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
— William Blake
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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
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The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
— Aristotle
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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
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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
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...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.
— Nicole Krauss
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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
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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
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Don't confuse symmetry with balance.
— Tom Robbins
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.
— Khaled Hosseini
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.
— Fabiola Gianotti
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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
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The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
— Aristotle
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