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Because carbon dioxide ice has a symmetry of four, we know dry-ice snowflakes would be cube-shaped, thanks to the Mars Climate Sounder, we can tell these snowflakes would be smaller than the width of a human hair. – Sylvain Piqueux	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If you're a really good passer in football, you line up the axis of rotation with the axis of symmetry of the football, and it doesn't wobble. – Dennis McCarthy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Human sperm figured out if they roll as they swim, much like playful otters corkscrewing through water, their one-sided stroke would average itself out, and they would swim forwards, the rotation of the sperm is something that is very important. It's something that allows the sperm to regain a symmetry and actually be able to go straight. – Hermes Gadelha	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The rotation of the sperm is something that is very important. It's something that allows the sperm to regain a symmetry and actually be able to go straight. – Hermes Gadelha	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We thought, Wait a minute. It seemed like the universe violated CPT symmetry, but actually we just werent looking at the whole picture. – Latham Boyle	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Biology breaks this symmetry, this is the difference between chemistry and biology. – Frans Snik	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
One factor that could contribute to the increase is this desire for symmetry, another factor is probably the Angelina Jolie effect. She was diagnosed with the BRCA-1 cancer gene that mutation that causes breast cancer, and she had a double mastectomy, so that was covered widely in the media. – Ahmedin Jemal	Found on CNN 7 years ago
We expect all our friends, and anyone concerned with the facts and the truth, to look at these facts to see the truth and not to draw false symmetry between Israeli citizens and those who’d stab them and knife them to death. – Benjamin Netanyahu	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The poll's symmetry of mutual concern is a new phenomenon — though not exactly balanced. When gay marriage supporters were asked whether they respect their opponents, 70% said yes. Just 61% of gay marriage opponents said the same. Compassion is not yet equally contagious. – David Paleologos	added by anonymous 8 years ago
I think the U.S. is trying to get its allies to do more, there is an obvious symmetry between Japan as the upper anchor of the Western Pacific alliance and ... Australia as the southern anchor. – Euan Graham	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign. – Primo Levi	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. – Charles Lamb	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. – Charles Lamb	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it. – Upham	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that progress gain in strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it. – Josiah Gilbert Holland	added by anonymous 13 years ago

Because carbon dioxide ice has a symmetry of four, we know dry-ice snowflakes would be cube-shaped, thanks to the Mars Climate Sounder, we can tell these snowflakes would be smaller than the width of a human hair.

– Sylvain Piqueux

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you're a really good passer in football, you line up the axis of rotation with the axis of symmetry of the football, and it doesn't wobble.

– Dennis McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Human sperm figured out if they roll as they swim, much like playful otters corkscrewing through water, their one-sided stroke would average itself out, and they would swim forwards, the rotation of the sperm is something that is very important. It's something that allows the sperm to regain a symmetry and actually be able to go straight.

– Hermes Gadelha

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The rotation of the sperm is something that is very important. It's something that allows the sperm to regain a symmetry and actually be able to go straight.

– Hermes Gadelha

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We thought, Wait a minute. It seemed like the universe violated CPT symmetry, but actually we just werent looking at the whole picture.

– Latham Boyle

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Biology breaks this symmetry, this is the difference between chemistry and biology.

– Frans Snik

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

One factor that could contribute to the increase is this desire for symmetry, another factor is probably the Angelina Jolie effect. She was diagnosed with the BRCA-1 cancer gene that mutation that causes breast cancer, and she had a double mastectomy, so that was covered widely in the media.

– Ahmedin Jemal

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We expect all our friends, and anyone concerned with the facts and the truth, to look at these facts to see the truth and not to draw false symmetry between Israeli citizens and those who’d stab them and knife them to death.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The poll's symmetry of mutual concern is a new phenomenon — though not exactly balanced. When gay marriage supporters were asked whether they respect their opponents, 70% said yes. Just 61% of gay marriage opponents said the same. Compassion is not yet equally contagious.

– David Paleologos

added by anonymous
8 years ago

I think the U.S. is trying to get its allies to do more, there is an obvious symmetry between Japan as the upper anchor of the Western Pacific alliance and ... Australia as the southern anchor.

– Euan Graham

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.

– Primo Levi

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

– Charles Lamb

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

– Charles Lamb

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.

– Upham

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that progress gain in strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it.

– Josiah Gilbert Holland

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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