Symmetry Principles Quotes

The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.

Symmetries are the playing field on which the physical world works and which determine the rules of the game. The symmetries of nature determine for us things that remain constant, that can't be changed. Those are the guideposts in physics, the quantities like energy and momentum.

Symmetry principles are principles governing the laws of nature that say those laws look the same if you change your point of view in certain ways.

The three discrete invariances - reflection invariance, charge conjugation invariance, and time reversal invariance - are connected by an important theorem called the CPT theorem.

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

The biggest conceptual change over the last 100 years in the way physicists think about the world is symmetry.

The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

The law of right-left symmetry was used in classical physics but was not of any great practical importance there. One reason for this derives from the fact that right-left symmetry is a discrete symmetry, unlike rotational symmetry, which is continuous.

We will have to abandon the philosophy of Democritus and the concept of elementary particles. We should accept instead the concept of elementary symmetries.