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Quotes About Hexagonal

The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Denied a Lenin and deprived of Napoleon, France retreated into the last and, we must hope, indestructible redoubt, the world of Astérix . The postwar vogue for Parisian thinkers barely concealed their collective retreat into Hexagonal introversion and into the ultimate fortress of French intellectuality, Cartesian theory and puns.
~ Eric J. Hobsbawm
Examples of such self-reorganization abound in Order Out of Chaos. Heat moving evenly through a liquid suddenly, at a certain threshold, converts into a convection current that radically reorganizes the liquid, and millions of molecules, as if on cue, suddenly form themselves into hexagonal cells.
~ Ilya Prigogine