Symmetry Quotes
In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry.
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 the athlete, but not the Apollo.
Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.
The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.
Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.
Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.
Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.
No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance.
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 resonance of reality.
The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made mechanics analytical; I mean Euler.
This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity.
I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.
The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce.
What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration.
Digital mechanics predicts that for every continuous symmetry of physics there will be some microscopic process that violates that symmetry.
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making.
You're my phantom limb, Mouse. I keep looking for you. I forget. I feel stupid, Mouse. Haunt me, find me, come back from wherever you are. Be with me.
Seeing all lifein perfect symmetry.Perceiving each daywith righteous clarity.Living each momentin purposed reality.Believing each dayis the start of eternity.
Here we have both a paradox, and a beautiful symmetry. It is a duality. I am the earth and you are the moon, and you are the earth and I am the moon.