Asymmetry
Index Entry
Asymmetry:
"Symmetrical means having no local asymmetries. Omni- symmetrical permits local asymmetries. Universe is omnisymmetrical. A three-bladed propeller is dynamically symmetrical (three pear-shaped blades at 120° to each other inscribed in an equilateral triangle). The propeller blade is locally asymmetrical. . . Our seeability is inherently local that we never see anything but the asymmetries. . . Sociologists have such trouble because they see (rather than the principles) such a high frequency of asymmetries."
Citations
- RBF to EJA, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 31 May 1971
