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Quotes About Symmetry

The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
~ Said Nursi
Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.
~ Christopher Wren
The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.
~ D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in place.
~ Hafez
Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another.
~ Christian Louboutin
The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.
~ Steven Weinberg
The beauty is the balance.
~ Frazey Ford
To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.
~ George Santayana
Beauty is a sense of harmony.
~ Ayn Rand
Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture.
~ Bertrand Russell
one of his eyebrows was missing. Strange how unimportant eyebrows can be, as long as there are two of them
~ David Malouf
On a plaque attached to the NASA deep space probe we [human beings] are described in symbols for the benefit of any aliens who might meet the spacecraft as "bilaterly symmetrical, sexually differentiated bipeds, located on one of the outer spiral arms of the Milky Way, capable of recognising the prime numbers and moved by one extraordinary quality that lasts longer than all our other urges—curiosity.
~ David Wells
Humanity enveloped in entropy desperately seeking symmetry for peace of mind
~ Dean Cavanagh
And thinking of her waiting to be found, while he was waiting to find, gave a beautiful symmetry to the love he felt for her.
~ Howard Jacobson
There's plenty of symmetry in revenge, but no virtue.
~ Hugh Mackay
Daniel seems to rise above the moon with a brilliance in his eyes. He steps toward the sea and screams, more in defiance than rage. "Mortality; O wretched death and mortality! Decay is a demon dream, schemed in symmetry. O, that death crucified might halt its talons, for all will ascend from the grave! Remember the fallen, the slain; their dust is our foundation. Consider their suffering and pain; for there lies a new creation.
~ Unknown
Many objects of our three-dimensional perceptual world are not only chiral but appear in nature in two versions, related at least ideally, as a chiral object and its mirror image.
~ Vladimir Prelog
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.
~ Frank Ocean
Our earlobes line up with our nipples.
~ Jill Shalvis
The majority of Americans regarded us with ambivalence if not outright distaste, we being living reminders of their stinging defeat. We threatened the sanctity and symmetry of a white and black America whose yin and yang racial politics left no room for any other color, particularly that of pathetic little yellow-skinned people pickpocketing the American purse.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
~ Vikram Seth
Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.
~ Vitruvius
Like associates with like.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
If I love order, it's not the mark of a character subjected to an inner discipline, a repression of the instincts. In me the idea of an absolutely regular world, symmetrical and methodical, is associated with that first impulse and burgeoning of nature. The rest of your images that associate passion with disorder, love with intemperate overflow - river fire whirlpool volcano - are for me memories of nothingness and listlessness and boredom.
~ Italo Calvino