Symmetry Quotations

Don't confuse symmetry with balance.

There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other.

I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.

You can't chop down a symmetry

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric. Acknowledging the role of molecules that have stereoisomers, some the mirror image of the others, and microorganisms whose chemistry prefers only one of those forms.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty...