Point of view Quote by Anthony Doerr

“In the infinite permutation of an ice crystal, everything repeats itself, but, really, from another point of view, nothing repeats itself.”

— Anthony Doerr

I think the most remarkable thing about ice, in my opinion at least, is that it occurs in many, many, many different forms. Most…

— Ira Flatow

“Studying ice crystals as a graduate student, he eventually found the basic design (equilateral, equiangled hexagon) so icily repeated, so unerringly conforming, that he…

— Anthony Doerr

“As we showed in figure 5, water molecules oscillate about their rest positions in ice. Quantum mechanics says that this remains true at absolute…

— Henning Genz

On the geometric level, we see certain physical elements repeated endlessly, combined in an almost endless variety of combinations. It is puzzling to realize…

— Christopher Alexander

“When it comes to the number of forms, or phases, of ice, water has more solid phases —nine total —than any other known pure…

— Roger Highfield

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

— Marcus Aurelius

I suspect that you, like I once did, are picturing the Arctic as one endless Pingu landscape of flat ice, broken only by the…

— Alexander Armstrong

“But for all practical purposes the formation of ice breaks the continuous symmetries of water non-deterministically. This non-deterministic symmetry breaking is called spontaneous symmetry…

— Henning Genz

While ice is not really alive, it is certainly animate. It exists in an dynamic state of perpetual vibration, flux and movement. Enjoy its…

— Wil McCarthy

Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every…

— Ian Allison

Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and…

— Wilson Bentley