Atoms Quote by Democritus

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

— Democritus

“By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention color; but in reality atoms and void.”

— Democritus

Democritus sometimes does away with what appears to the senses, and says that none of these appears according to truth but only according to…

— Sextus Empiricus

'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus. The universe…

— Edward Robert Harrison

We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.

— Democritus

I ask you what is the taste of your mouth all you can do is to say: it is neither sweet nor bitter, nor…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.

— Walt Whitman

There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness

— Jonathan Edwards

Sweet is the lore which nature brings, our meddeling interlect mis-shapes the beautious forms of things. we murder to dissect

— William Wordsworth

The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when…

— Jakob Bohme

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.

— William Wordsworth