Butterfly Wings

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:

    “The wings of Time are black and white,
    Pied with morning and with night.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)