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Strange mystery involving minute, pleasing form?
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Symmetry (from Greek συμμετρία symmetria "agreement in dimensions, due proportion, arrangement") in everyday language refers to a sense of harmonious and beautiful proportion and balance. In mathematics, "symmetry" has a more precise definition, that an ...
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n. (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact correspondence of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane [syn: symmetricalness , correspondence , balance ] [ant: asymmetry ] balance among the parts of something [syn: proportion ] ...
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But whatever may be the phases of the arts, there is the abiding principle of symmetry in the body of man, that goes erect, like an upright soul.
Einstein significantly extended this symmetry by showing that the laws of physics are actually identical for all observers, even if they are undergoing complicated accelerated motion.
The confirmation of that truth becomes irresistible when we see how reason and conscience, with delighted avidity, seize upon its adaptedness alike to the brightest features and the darkest defects of the present life, whose imperfect symmetries and segments are harmoniously filled out by the adjusting complement of a future state.
What geometrician or arithmetician could fail to take pleasure in the symmetries, correspondences and principles of order observed in visible things?
This axiom evidently expresses the symmetry of perpendicularity, and is the essence of the famous pons asinorum expressed as an axiom.
It is however necessary for time as a supplement to the axiom of kinetic symmetry.
Taking the globe as a whole, we see that bilateral symmetry is preserved.
The flatworm is the simplest living multicellular animal to have bilateral symmetry, and its primeval ancestors must have been the first to develop this.
This grand division of living creatures into those with bilateral symmetry and those without is of vital importance.
A creature with bilateral symmetry is usually longest in the direction of the plane of symmetry and tends to progress along that plane.
The fact that we have two eyes is part of our bilateral symmetry, as is the fact that we have two ears, two arms, and two legs.
Radial rather than bilateral symmetry would eliminate the left-hemisphere-right-hemi-sphere separation of the higher creatures on Earth.
It may sound simplistic when you break it down to its basics, but there is a symmetry and tradition to bocce that makes it fascinating.
This coincident symmetry did not astonish the lone brown eye that watched from above.
As to the ordinary and commonplace explanation, it may be added, that the wisdom of the Architect is displayed in combining, as only a skillful Architect can do, and as God has done everywhere,--for example, in the tree, the human frame, the egg, the cells of the honeycomb--strength, with grace, beauty, symmetry, proportion, lightness, ornamentation.