A mountain out of a Molehill by Dr Isaac Asimov

   To the Greeks, chaos was primeval matter in total disorder. 
Cosmos, on the other hand, was the same matter in some appearance of order.
The creation of the universe then was not the creation of matter; that already existed. It was the creation of order.
Anything that imposes disorder on matter originally in order is chaotic. On the other hand, anything that imposes order on matter originally in disorder is cosmetic.
And now we know what it is that a woman does when she uses cosmetics to make up her face.

Culled from the book Test Your Word POWER by Jerome Agel.