Hermann Weyl Quotes

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.

Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.

For a physicist or a mathematician, the most symmetrical object you could think about would be a sphere, because it looks identical no matter what you do to it, however you rotate it in any given direction.

When I do the dodecahedron with the science audiences, I'll point out that I can only do three of the five forms with bubbles, since bubbles only join at three-way corners. The two I can't do are the ones that represent water and air. That always gets a big laugh from the mathematicians. They see the irony in it.

You can't chop down a symmetry

God ever geometrizes.

..if a special geometry has to be invented in order to account for a falling apple, even Newton might be appalled at the complications which would ensue when really difficult problems are tackled.

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

Reality favors symmetry.

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.

Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle?

When you’re O.C.D., you want the most beautiful animals.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.

For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.

Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.

There is no beauty without order.

If I had to pick one artist to tile my bathroom I would go with MC Escher.