"By symmetry we mean the existence of different viewpoints from which the system appears the same. It is only slightly overstating the case to say that physics is the study of symmetry. The first demonstration of the power of this idea may have been by Newton, who may have asked himself the question: What if the matter here in my hand obeys the same laws as that up in the sky—that is, what if space and matter are homogeneous and isotropic?"
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Philip Warren Anderson
[Warren Anderson| Warren Anderson]] (December 13, 1923 – March 29, 2020) was an American theoretical physicist.
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