Symmetry Quotes

Symmetry Quote of the day

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 optically effective than symmetry.

...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

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 and create order, beauty and perfection.

Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

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, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.

There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other.

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

...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 of admiring.

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.

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 always interrupted by the basket.

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Understand stakeholder symmetry: Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders.

Symmetry is for God, not for us.

Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

Humanity enveloped in entropy desperately seeking symmetry for peace of mind

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 less crooked nose and an irregular mouth.

Symmetry may have its appeal but it is inherently stale. Some kind of imbalance is behind every transformation.

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.

Don't confuse symmetry with balance.

I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

Everybody has two legs, two lobes to the brain which is why we tend to be interested in symmetry, always balancing things.

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

Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.

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 eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.

I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.

Reality favors symmetry.

The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry.

Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.

What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

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 objects."-Her Fearful Symmetry