Quotes About Symmetry

Earth-Sky…Day-Night…Sound-Silence…Dark-Light…Balance!

Earth-Sky…Quiet-Sound…Dark-Light…Up-Down…Balance!

They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.

You and me, baby. We're like a kaleidoscope, our colors come alive when I collide with you.

The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.

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

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

We ask the poet to reassure us by giving us a geometry of living, in which all things add up and cohere, to tell us how things buttress once another, circle round and intermelt.

Like nothing else, words organized my world, put order to chaos, divided things neatly into black and white. Words even helped me organize my parents. My mother was the printed word—tangible, present, real—while my father was the spoken word—invisible, ephemeral, instantly part of memory. There was something comforting about this rigid symmetry.

Next to love, balance is the most important thing. –John Wooden

Excessive symmetry is either unnatural and conceals some human thought behind it, or else supernatural and conceals some mystery.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

Plato defined good as threefold in character: good in the soul, expressed through the virtues; good in the body, expressed through the symmetry and endurance of the parts; and good in the external world, expressed through social position and companionship.

Be consoled in the secret symmetry of your soul.

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.

Next to love, balance is the most important thing.

Our parallel lives resemble paths bordered at intervals by flower-vases placed symmetrically but not facing each other.

The patterns of tiles created by the Moors are of secondary interest: it is the underlying group of symmetries which preserve aspects of the patterns that defines the geometry of the [Alhambra's] murals.

The Goldberg Variations is a good example of how symmetry is not just a physical property but pervades many abstract structures.

Busby Berkeley

All truth is comprised in music and mathematics.

The pleasure of this kind of narrative is not that we think we are reading about the real world (although the story usually does map onto our world fairly closely), but rather that the wings of symmetry are unfolding around us; briefly we are on a planet where, as E.M. Forster says, there are no secrets and human behavior makes sense. I call this 'fiction.

True friendship can exist only between equals.