Literary notes about fluid (AI summary)
In literature the term fluid functions on multiple levels—both as a precise descriptor of physical properties and as a metaphor for change and creativity. Writers like Emerson depict it as an essence of spirit and a symbol of the ever-changing universe [1, 2, 3], while scientific texts rigorously employ fluid to explain mechanical and chemical phenomena, from percolator joints to the dynamics of bodily functions [4, 5, 6, 7]. At the same time, fluid captures the idea of inherent adaptability and transformation in human experience and nature, evoking images of flexible emotions and mutable forms [8, 9, 10]. This duality enables fluid to bridge the tangible and the abstract, illustrating both measurable properties and the elusive flow of life and thought.
- The immobility or bruteness of nature, is the absence of spirit; to pure spirit, it is fluid, it is volatile, it is obedient.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson - The universe [261] is fluid and volatile.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson - As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson - James H. Nason, of Franklin, Mass., was granted a United States patent in 1865 on a percolator with fluid joints.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - A dense Fluid can be of no use for explaining the Phænomena of Nature, the Motions of the Planets and Comets being better explain'd without it.
— from Opticks : by Isaac Newton - And once while he was washing his mouth in the waters, he beheld the celestial nymph Urvasi—whereupon came out his seminal fluid.
— from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 - The action of the fluid on the metals, whether water or acid be used, is entirely of a chemical nature.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - I fly those flights of a fluid and swallowing soul, My course runs below the soundings of plummets.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman - Where can that drop of fluid matter contain that infinite number of forms?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne - One of the women whirled in a series of handsprings, like a blue balloon—her body as fluid as quicksilver.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey
