Atoms Quote by Democritus

By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention color is…

— Democritus

Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist

— Democritus

“...my atoms, moreover, are arranged to make me constitutionally inclined to believe that where there's smoke there's usually strawberry Jello, seldom fire...”

— J.D. Salinger

“Atoms at such low temperatures lost their individuality and physical properties, going through an identity crisis.”

— Christopher Meeks

“Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.”

— Thornton Wilder

“The bitter must come before the sweet, and that also will make the sweet the sweeter.”

— John Bunyan

“For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?”

— John Steinbeck

“There is negative and positive from atoms to stars and you have the ability to choose”

— Eric Pavelka

“The heat compounded, and ugliness settled its cloud over us, profound as human speech, although by then we were not speaking.”

— Cleopatra Mathis

“We need dualities or opposites to appreciate, understand and recognize value and distinction in our lives. If we did not have bitter, we could…

— I. Alan Appt

I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.

— Lewis Carroll

There are certain phrases in books of mine, and I don't know where they came from, or how I was capable of thinking up…

— Paul Auster