Chiral Symmetry
"Chiral" comes from the Greek for "Hand". The most straightforward example of Chiral symmetry is the mirror symmetry shown by your left and right hand. Chirality is a concept of importance in several areas of science.
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“What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)