Quotes About Symmetry

Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference.

The buckyball, with sixty carbon atoms, is the most symmetrical form the carbon atom can take. Carbon in its nature has a genius for assembling into buckyballs. The perfect nanotube, that is, the nanotube that the carbon atom naturally wants to make and makes most often, is exactly large enough that one buckyball can roll right down the center.

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

LOOK THROUGH THE PEEPHOLE AND YOU'LL SEE PATTERNS PRETTY AS CAN BE

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

This way of thinking suggests that nothing is perfection - or at least, perfect symmetry, which to many physicists is the same thing. Nothing is perfect, but not very interesting.

As above, so below," runs the old motto. It

Architecture in general is frozen music.

All things are math. Art especially is math.

The world has not to be put in order: the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order...

The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature.

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.

Caffeine does, in fact, shrink the appetite and discombobulate insect brains...The caffeinated spiders [in a certain study] spun a strangely cubist and utterly ineffective web, with oblique angles, openings big enough to let small birds through, and completely lacking symmetry or center. (The web was far more fanciful than the ones spun by spiders given cannabis or LSD.)

The key point is now this: If the wave function of a particle vibrates along this surface, it will inherit this SU(N) symmetry. Thus the mysterious SU(N) symmetries arising in subatomic physics can now be seen as by-products of vibrating hyperspace! In other words ,we now have an explanation for the origin of the mysterious symmetries of wood: They are really the hidden symmetries coming from marble.

mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colors or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test; there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics." And that beauty is symmetry.

Rotating in four-dimensional space unifies the concept of space and time, turning one into the other as the velocity is increased. This beautiful, elegant concept, that symmetry unifies seemingly dissimilar entities into a pleasing, harmonious whole, guided Einstein for the next fifty years.

Physicists believe that at the instant of the Big Bang, the universe was in perfect symmetry and there was an equal amount of matter and antimatter. If so, the annihilation between the two would have been perfect and complete, and the universe should be made of pure radiation. Yet here we are, made of matter, which should not be around anymore. Our very existence defies modern physics.

In other words, symmetry is the preservation of the shape of an object even after we deform or rotate it. Several kinds of symmetries occur repeatedly in nature. The first is the symmetry of rotations and reflections.

To a physicist, beauty means symmetry and simplicity. If a theory is beautiful, this means it has a powerful symmetry that can explain a large body of data in the most compact, economical manner. More precisely, and equation is considered to be beautiful if it remains the same when we interchange its components among themselves.

Finalmente, Einstein creó dos grandes teorías. La primera fue la relatividad especial, que describía las propiedades de los rayos de luz en el espacio-tiempo e introducía una simetría basada en rotaciones en cuatro dimensiones. La segunda fue la relatividad general, en la que la gravedad se revela como la curvatura del espacio-tiempo.

El matrimonio entre la relatividad y la teoría cuántica ha estado casi un siglo perturbando a los físicos, pero la simetría entre fermiones y bosones, denominada «supersimetría», nos permite anular muchos de estos infinitos entre sí.

la forma humanoide con simetría bilateral, la misma forma que utiliza Hollywood para representar a los alienígenas en el espacio, no tiene por qué aplicarse necesariamente a toda la vida inteligente.

We have not yet figured out why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe. Only one ten-billionth of the original matter in the early universe survived this explosion, and we are part of it. The leading theory is that something violated the perfect symmetry between matter and antimatter at the Big Bang, but we don't know what it is. There is a Nobel Prize waiting for the enterprising individual who can solve this problem.