Symmetry Quotes

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.

When taking a photo, I tend to look for one of the following: depth, symmetry, color or contrast. All of those things catch my eye to the point where I stop dead in my tracks to capture whatever it is that I’ve seen.

When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo – symmetry, or color, or contrast – and it’s my hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do on a daily basis.

Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

Symmetry does mean something different for physicists than for members of the public. It means that an object or a theory does not change when you make some transformation – either rotating or moving it or doing something to the equations.

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.

Feedie creates a wonderful symmetry between tech and philanthropy. It also nourishes the users of the app by giving them the opportunity do something incredibly positive.

There’s a symmetry of blissfulness about Mongolia. It was a real privilege to be there.

My goal is always to bring a sense of balance, symmetry, and proportion to each individual face. The brows are an essential starting point.

Mascaras’ physique, in terms of symmetry and size, and his style in the ring really made him stand out. He really did live up to his name ‘The Man of 1,000 Masks.’ I think he had 1,000 masks and more. You would really never see him wear the same outfit twice… He was always very, very colorful.

I was an ambidextrous child, and the symmetry of roller skating was a welcome respite from my awkwardness with physical activities that involved a ball or a racket.

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.

I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me.

At the end of the day, inflation has been below 2% for quite a long time, and to me, symmetry means getting somewhere above 2% inflation at some point in my Fed career.

By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards – new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic – symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture – became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.

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

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.

We Americans love to cite the ‘political spectrum‘ as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry.

It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.

The existence of symmetry laws is in full accordance with our daily experience. The simplest of these symmetries, the isotropy and homogeneity of space, are concepts that date back to the early history of human thought.

If the chain symmetry is maintained in the crystal lattice, the possible occurrence of different space groups is considerably restricted.

Symmetry principles are principles governing the laws of nature that say those laws look the same if you change your point of view in certain ways.