Curie Principle


What about instabilities and symmetry breaking? Pierre Curie also stated that

When certain effects show a certain asymmetry, this asymmetry must be found in the causes which gave rise to them.

All of these comes from a paper published by Pierre Curie in 1894.

  1. Chalmers, A. F. (1970). Curie’s principle. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 21(2), 133–148.