Hermann Weyl - Symmetry (1938)

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Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.

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Symmetry is a vast subject, significant in art and nature. Mathematics lies at its root, and it would be hard to find a better one on which to demonstrate the working of the mathematical intellect.

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We still share the belief of a mathematical harmony of the universe. It has withstood the test of ever-widening experience. But we no longer seek this harmony in static forms like the regular solids, but in dynamic laws.

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Seldom is asymmetry merely the absence of symmetry...

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The truth as we see it today is this: The laws of nature do not determine uniquely the one world that actually exists.

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As far as I can see, all a priori statements in physics have their origin in symmetry.

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