Quotes About Asymmetry

That's what's good about the digital revolution is it makes information asymmetry much harder to maintain.

Molecular chirality plays a key role in science and technology. In particular, life depends on molecular chirality in that many biological functions are inherently dissymmetric.

Strike registered the pronounced asymmetry of his pale blue eyes, one of which was a good centimeter higher than the other. It gave him an oddly vulnerable look, as though he had been finished in a hurry.

Nearly all libertarians were once conservatives or progressives or independent statists of some stripe. But scarcely any conservatives, progressives, or independent statists were once libertarians. This asymmetry in the direction of ideological migration is interesting and perhaps informative.

the asymmetry between a ferociously strategic, corporate Republican Party and a compromised Democratic Party is telling.

Even if the asymmetry were 1 part in a billion there would be enough matter left over to account for everything we see in the universe today. In fact, an asymmetry of 1 part in a billion or so is precisely what was called for, because today there are roughly 1 billion photons in the cosmic microwave background for every proton in the universe. The CMBR photons are the remnants, in this picture, of the early matter-antimatter annihilations near the beginning of time.

Although the statistics vary depending upon whom you ask, virtually everyone who is right handed (over 85% of the U.S. population) is left hemisphere dominant. At the same time, over 60% of left handed people are also classified as left hemisphere dominant. Let's take a closer look at the asymmetries of

Make-up is in short designed to mimic youth, correct asymmetries, and signal sexuality.

Bars over the door, but not the window, and the roof looked

Here we come upon a terrible facet of ethically asymmetric warfare: when your enemy has no scruples, your own scruples become another weapon in his hand.

they would have worried for my soul. Pronin calls this phenomenon the "illusion of asymmetric insight." She writes: The conviction that we know others better than they know us—and that we may have insights about them they lack (but not vice versa)—leads us to talk when we would do well to listen and to be less patient than we ought to be when others express the conviction that they are the ones who are being misunderstood or judged unfairly.

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

Each of us is a complicated assymetrical outcome of the laws of electromagnetism and gravity.

Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple.

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

Thus, an instruction to see the moon as irregular, as asymmetrical, is an instruc- tion to see, metaphorically, that the essence of the divine, which the church is to serve and protect, is not the abstract, perfect, lifeless doctrine of the institution, but rather real, imperfect, vital beings.

Is it odd how asymmetrical Is symmetry? Symmetry is asymmetrical. How odd it is. This stanza remains unchanged if read word by word from the end to the beginning-it is symmetrical with respect to backward reading.

Cassini—who discovered Japetus in 1671—also observed that it was six times brighter on one side of its orbit than the other.

No one recognizes their faults or their virtues when these are stated by another, any more than they recognize their own voices on a tape recorder. The world transmits back to us only the asymmetric form of our vices, as a mirror reflects back the asymmetric form of our faces.

Our warfighting doctrine is that we don't want to be in a fair fight, and we want the fight to always be tilted in our favor.

The refusal of laughter to absent itself, in the Soviet case, has already been noted (and will be returned to). It seems that the Twenty Million will never command the sepulchral decorum of the Holocaust. This is not, or not only, a symptom of the general 'asymmetry of indulgence' (the phrase is Ferdinand Mount's). It would not be so unless something in the nature of Bolshevism permitted it to be so.

Well, I'm more lopsided than a one-legged badger.

Intensities are implicated multiplicities, 'implexes,' made up of relations between asymmetrical elements.

He complained to his superiors at 'being shot at from behind hedges by men in trilbys and mackintoshes and not allowed to shoot back'. But those men in trilbys taught him a lesson he would never forget: irregular soldiers, armed with nothing but homespun weaponry, could wreak havoc on a regular army.