Atoms Quote by Marcus Aurelius

Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of…

— Will Cuppy

“Alexander of Whitby taught that the universe is like a tapestry only parts of which are visible to us at a time. After we…

— Susanna Clarke

“When Alexander The Great was alive the world was not big enough to contain his ambition but while Alexander chafed at the confines of…

— Juvenal

“Alexander emerges as an almost Hamlet-like figure, more sinned against than sinning. In a sense Alexander, too, was haunted and motivated by his father’s…

— Andrew Chugg

I have spoken to Einstein and he admitted to me that his theory was in fact no different from the one of Parmenides.

— Karl Popper

“It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“All the authorities, however, agree as to the following facts:—that until the third day after Hephaestion’s death, Alexander neither tasted food nor paid any…

— Arrian

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to…

— Samuel Smiles

Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant.

— Charles Lyell

“Where he (Alexander) came the inhabitants either accepted him with roses and wine, or fought and were beaten. He preferred the latter.”

— William Bolitho

As scientists the two men were contrasting types—Einstein all calculation, Rutherford all experiment ... There was no doubt that as an experimenter Rutherford was…

— Chaim Weizmann

Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had…

— Plutarch