Chain Quote by Giulio Natta

If the polymer chain assumes a helicoidal conformation in the crystalline state, and if it does not contain asymmetric carbon atoms, it can be…

— Giulio Natta

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

— Steven Weinberg

All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity ... that in nature…

— Anonymous

We find, therefore, under this orderly arrangement, a wonderful symmetry in the universe, and a definite relation of harmony in the motion and magnitude…

— Johannes Kepler

“[The] structural theory is of extreme simplicity. It assumes that the molecule is held together by links between one atom and the next: that…

— Nevil Vincent Sidgwick

Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical structure of…

— Anonymous

Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.

— Sigmund Freud

Most theorists suspect that space has an intricate structure - that it is 'grainy' - but that this structure is on a much finer…

— Martin Rees

The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral…

— Stephen Hawking

The material universe must consist ... of bodies ... such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect, a change…

— Arthur David Ritchie

“an elegant mechanism emerges: a broken symmetry, hidden from our view by a field pervading space.”

— Sean Carroll

We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.

— James Jeans