  Complex spatiotemporal patterns in nature significantly challenge
reductionism-based modern science. The lack of a paradigm beyond reductionism
hinders our understanding of the emergence of complexity. The diversity of
countless patterns undermines any notion of universal mechanisms. Here,
however, we show that breaking the symmetry of three simple and
self-organization rules give rise to nearly all patterns in nature, such as a
wide variety of Turing patterns, fractals, spiral, target and plane waves, as
well as chaotic patterns. The symmetry breaking is rooted in basic physical
quantities, such as positive and negative forces, space, time and bounds.
Besides reproducing the hallmarks of complexity, we discover some novel
phenomena, such as abrupt percolation of Turing patterns, phase transition
between fractals and chaos, chaotic edge in travelling waves, etc. Our
asymmetric self-organization theory established a simple and unified framework
for the origin of complexity in all fields, and unveiled a deep relationship
between the first principles of physics and the complex world
