Atoms Quote by 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

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

— Democritus

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down."

— Diogenes

The structure underlying the phenomena is not given by material objects like the atoms of Democritus but by the form that determines the material…

— Werner Heisenberg

Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels within himself…

— David Hume

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

Truth is orphan without matter and matter is impotent without truth.

— Kedar Joshi

When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

— Aldous Huxley

“Sophisticated people seem to think that "the truth" must always be dark, disappointing, disillusioning. But this is not so at all. Most of the…

— Orson Scott Card

“We annihilate convention in order to experience the truth of otherness.”

— Carolyn Chun

Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of…

— Rene Daumal

An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility of our…

— William J. Mitchell