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It also works backwards: for (most) conserved quantities, you can also find a symmetry.

> Each symmetry you find leads to new physics.

There's a few caveats and asterisks for that. Eg Noether's theorem only applies to continuous symmetries. Eg Noether's theorem has nothing to say about mirror symmetry or time reversal symmetry.






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