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:
“It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are, in some degree, independent of men ... Whilst they are absolutely dependent on their husbands they will be cunning, mean, and selfish, and the men who can be gratified by the fawning fondness of spaniel-like affection, have not much delicacy, for love is not to be bought, in any sense of the words, its silken wings are instantly shrivelled up when any thing beside a return in kind is sought.”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)