Quotes About Symmetry

To me, it was clear proof of the existence of supersymmetry, the idea that every particle has a partner. She was mine.

Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.

Never make a calculation until you know the answer. Make an estimate before every calculation, try a simple physical argument (symmetry! invariance! conservation!) before every derivation, guess the answer to every paradox and puzzle. Courage: No one else needs to know what the guess is. Therefore make it quickly, by instinct. A right guess reinforces this instinct. A wrong guess brings the refreshment of surprise. In either case life as a spacetime expert, however long, is more fun!

One of the great things about mental math is that the calculations can generally be done from either direction, and a certain symmetry generally is present.

Yet, despite the symmetry of the laws of Nature, we observe the outcomes of those symmetrical laws to be assymetrical states and structures.

Particle physicists are the most deeply Platonic because their entire subject is built upon a belief that the deepest workings of the world are based upon symmetries. They examine symmetry after symmetry, confident in the expectation that the biggest and the best will have found employ in the grand scheme of things.

Order is the greatest grace

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.

I think everything in life is a balance.

Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.

Es mediodía. Un parque. Invierno. Blancas sendas; simétricos montículos y ramas esqueléticas.   Bajo el invernadero, naranjos en maceta, y en su tonel, pintado de verde, la palmera.

E ho proseguito sul molo con passi pausati e lenti, cercando di non calpestare gli interstizi del lastricato, come quando ero bambino e con un ingenuo rituale provavo a regolare sulla simmetria delle pietre la mia infantile decifrazione del mondo ancora senza scansione e senza misura.

The primary factor is proportions.

If by some unimaginable process works of beauty could be produced by machinery, as a symmetrical color pattern is produced by a kaleidoscope, we might think them beautiful till we knew their origin, after which we should be rather disposed to describe them as ingenious.

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

Projective geometry is all geometry.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

To grasp the essence of chirality, it is instructive to withdraw for a moment from the familiar three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional one, into a plane, and enquire what chirality means there.

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception.

I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Americans use a combination of circular symmetry and fourfold symmetry.

My work on symmetries of string theory is on what is known as strong-weak coupling duality, or S-duality.

The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.

Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' quarks ought to have 'squark' partners, and so on.

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.