Butterfly wings is most commonly used as a reference to the chaos theory or the butterfly effect, coming from the idea that a butterfly can flap one wing and cause chaos, and flap the other to cause peace.
Butterfly wings may refer to:
- The Planetary Nebula M2-9, known as the "Wings of a Butterfly Nebula"
- Bullet with Butterfly Wings, a popular song by The Smashing Pumpkins and the lead single from their album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
- Wings of a Butterfly, a song by HIM from the album Dark Light
- Butterfly Wings, a song by Machines of Loving Grace from Concentration (album)
See Butterfly for information about the wings of butterflys themselves.
Famous quotes containing the word wings:
“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)