Quotes About Symmetry

The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes. Money has trickled through this room for years and years, as if through an underground cavern, crusting and hardening like stalactites into these forms.

The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes.

I love mathematics not only because it is applicable to technology but also because it is beautiful.

My friendships have a certain symmetry at the moment: Alice is always asking me what she should do, and Nancy is always telling me what I should do.

The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square.

... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.

Movies and life become a little more symmetrical when you start asking for and looking for connections.

I always feel more grounded and stable when I have balance in my life; I'm a Libra!

beauty is not symmetry of parts- that's so impotent -as Mishima says, beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, & finally destroys...

Islamic patterns speak of infinity and the omnipresent center.

Ludwig Schlafi (1814-1895) proved that there are six regular four-dimensional polytopes (generalisations of polyhedra): the 5-cell made of tetrahedra, the 8-cell or tesseract made of cubes, the 16-cell made of tetrahedra, the 24-cell made of octahedra, the 120-cell made of dodecahedra, and the 600-cell made of tetrahedra.

It's strange. With all this harmonious interplay of numbers you would have expected the whole system to be a precisely coherent whole. It isn't. There are echoes here from the scientific view of a world formed by broken symmetry, subject to quantum uncertainty and (so far) defying a precise comprehensive 'theory of everything'. Is this why the 'near miss' is so often more beautiful than perfection?

Many familiar objects from cassettes to credit cards and Georgian front doors are Phi (1.618...) rectangles.

The dodecagon is also made from six squares and six equilateral triangles fitted around a hexagon

Why was "plain" a euphemism for "ugly," when the very hallmark of human beauty was its plainness, the symmetry and simplicity that always seemed so young and so innocent. It was impossible not to think that here beauty was one of the most important things about her - something having to do with who she really was.

Hope had been in the NICU for a week before she was named. The name her parents had picked out was Allison—Allegra and Allison, for nauseating twin symmetry—but after all that transpired, they changed their minds and decided to call her Hope, no explanation needed. She was a survivor, an underdog who had prevailed;

Where the road was broken, its edges had cracked and meltd where the Technomancer had pulled her Tower from the earth, interrupting its symmetry.

I hope you'll forgive me for ruining the symmetry of your genocide. I was invested in being discreet.

Try to find balance in everything.

Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

I use the golden ratio to create the perfect shape on my clients' faces.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

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.

Like meditation, running is a unique combination of relaxation, good posture, and symmetry. When we pay attention to our posture and apply some discipline to how we hold our body, joy and freshness arise.