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