Nature acts in the construction of liquid figures on the principle of a covetous tailor, and gives no thought in her work to the fashions. But, strange to say, in this work, the most beautiful fashions are of themselves produced.


Translated by Thomas Joseph McCormack, Popular Scientific Lectures (3rd edition), The Forms of Liquids (p. 10)

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Nature acts in the construction of liquid figures on the principle of a covetous tailor, and gives no thought in her work to the fashions. But,...

Nature acts in the construction of liquid figures on the principle of a covetous tailor, and gives no thought in her work to the fashions. But,...

Nature acts in the construction of liquid figures on the principle of a covetous tailor, and gives no thought in her work to the fashions. But,...

Nature acts in the construction of liquid figures on the principle of a covetous tailor, and gives no thought in her work to the fashions. But,...