Democritus Quote by Leon M. Lederman

“And were the vision of Democritus to have been adopted by Western civilization, instead of being cast aside for the pale views of Plato…

— Carl Sagan

“As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the…

— Frederick the Great

“The revolutionary is a dedicated man. He has no personal interests, no private affairs, no emotions, no attachments, no property and no name. Everything…

— Victor Sebestyen

The Void is a living void ... pulsating in endless rhythms of creation and destruction. The great Void does not exist as Void, it…

— Frederick Franck

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

— Toni Cade Bambara

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Nothing was done to us - we were simply placed in a complete void, and everyone knows that nothing on earth exerts such pressure…

— Stefan Zweig

“The void was not just a regular void and empty but was full of all that we did not expect of ourselves.”

— Joseph McElroy

I know the void, the void knows me. It keeps us weak; the void told me.

— Planningtorock

“No victorious revolution without an idea. Certainly! But just as certainly: It is not the idea which makes a revolution, but privation which causes…

— Victor Klemperer

INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

— Ambrose Bierce

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

— Anonymous