Claims Quote by Evangelista Torricelli

A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.

— Zelda Fitzgerald

But we must here state that we should not see anything if there were a vacuum. But this would not be due to some…

— Roger Bacon

Today the vacuum [of space] is not regarded as empty. It is a sea of dynamic energy, like the spray of foam near a…

— Harold E. Puthoff

“Nature does nothing to avoid the vacuum; rather the weight of the air masses is the true reason for all these phenomena which we…

— Blaise Pascal

“The vacuum of physics contains in its faculties everything that the laws of nature will permit. It fluctuates-the virtual particles come and go. The…

— Henning Genz

It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.

— Rene Descartes

“Can you create a vacuum out of a human life? A state where everything’s possible but nothing very likely? Does something new emerge when…

— Dominic Smith

Nature abhors the vacuum tube.

— John R. Pierce

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

— Heinz Pagels

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

— Henry David Thoreau

Nothing exists but atoms and the void.

— Democritus

“How could the vacuum, which has nothing in it, have any energy at all? The answer comes from another equation: Einstein's famous E=mc^2. This…

— Charles Seife