Rotational Symmetry Quotes & Sayings

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. — Chen-Ning Yang

We're stunning - and we need to be, if we're to make a good impression and accomplish our goals. It's vain, it's stupid, and it's shallow, but that makes it no less true. — Jim Butcher

It really is a very radical call ... to reject materialism as our central value and to think about the sanctity of life and what that really means if we take it seriously. — Naomi Oreskes

The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel. — Mahatma Gandhi

As women are taking an active part in pressing on the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian measures, such as more rigid Sunday laws, the stopping of travel, the distribution of the mail on that day, and the introduction of the name of God into the Constitution; and as this action on the part of some women is used as an argument for the disfranchisement of all, I hope this convention will declare that the Woman Suffrage Association is opposed to all union of Church and State, and pledges itself as far as possible to maintain the secular nature of our Government. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Logic is like the sword
those who appeal to it shall perish by it. — Samuel Butler

Life is great, and without it, you'd be dead. — Karen Quan

Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in death we can picture in sleep. All our sufferings vanish in sleep. When death comes, all our mortal tortures cease; they cannot go beyond the portals of death. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality. — Jean Baudrillard

It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health. — Daniel Quinn

NYC Marathon cancelled: runners are scrambling to find some other meaningless accomplishment to use as a proxy for control over their lives. — Nils Parker

My books are based on the "what if" principle. "What if you became invisible?" or "What if you did change into your mother for one day?" I then take it from there. Each book takes several months in the long process of writing, rewriting, writing, rewriting, and each has its own set of problems. The one thing I dislike about the writing process is the sometimes-loneliness of it all. Readers only get to see the glamour part of a bound book, not some of the agonizing moments one has while constructing it. — Mary Rodgers

The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Heaven will be full of the songs of worshipers who had once been broken people in a broken world, picked up and used for God's glory. — Louie Giglio

Like clouds in rain, like seas
Exultant as they roll,
We mix in ecstasies,
And, as breeze melts in breeze,
Thy soul becomes my soul. — Aleister Crowley