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The word “symmetry” constitutes its own world. A world that originates from the natural objects, living or nonliving like from animal bodies or Maple leaves to rock salt or diamond and extends through the man-made objects of great engineering skills like thousands of historically important minarets, modern bridges, sky scrappers, and then through arts like the symmetry in verses and tunes and perhaps finally through science like atomic structure and the characters of physical laws. That is why this world is symmetrically wonderful. Further, as nothing is perfectly perfect, the symmetry what we see in this universe is always associated with asymmetry. Amongst these two extremes it will probably remain as an insolvable question, “which dominates what” Irrespective of this fact, it may be said that the beauty of the symmetry could probably not realized if it was not intimately combined with asymmetry.

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(2008). The World of Symmetry. In: Crystallography and the World of Symmetry. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 113. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69899-9_9

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