symmetry, n.Definitions

Symmetry is what we see at a glance.

Symmetry is often a constituent of beauty, tidiness is a virtue.

Symmetry is not balance — don't confuse symmetry with balance.

Symmetry is predicted, in digital mechanics, to always be violated by some microscopic process in every continuous symmetry of physics.

Symmetry is the enemy of art, just as consistency is the enemy of enterprise.

Symmetry is indicative of the mineral world while asymmetry is a sign of the living world — Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form. The distinction is between those substances that have a plane of symmetry and those that do not. The former belong to the mineral, the latter to the living world.

Symmetry is non-existent in nature... one eye is never exactly the same as the other... there's always a difference and we all have a more or less crooked nose and an irregular mouth.

Symmetry is human fascination likely resulting from the fact that everyone has two legs, two lobes to the brain; things always balancing things.