The abundance of juxtapositions of fluidity with solidness in poetry requires an explanation involving a universal feature of human psychology. I have seen a medicine That's able to breathe life into a stone, Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary With spritely fire and motion; whose simple
The structure of creation stories reflects the complex physical, liquid crystalline state of living matter. Having this in view, the Creator mingled earth with fire and water and mixed with them a ferment of acid and salt, so as to form pulpy flesh. — Plato, Timaeus (1873) Blood is thicker than
How Edgar Allan Poe accidentally predicted the discovery of liquid crystals. Another reason was, that the incidents to be narrated were of a nature so positively marvellous, that, unsupported as my assertions must necessarily be, I could only hope for belief among my family, and those of my friends who
© 2023-2025 Andrew Hodgson. Edited by Lisa Anthony and Margaret Krous. The idea that our sense of beauty is related to physical conditions in the brain was first proposed and demonstrated, to my knowledge, by Esther Leslie in Liquid Crystals: The Science and Art of a Fluid Form. For it