“What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without dense matter between them? Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain? and Whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world? To what end are comets? and Whence is it that planets move all one and the same way in orbs concentrick, while comets move all manner of ways in orbs very excentrick? and What hinders the fixed stars from falling upon one another?” WorldWayEndsMatterMovingOrderFallStarsSunPlanetsEmptyAriseVainFixedHinderDenseCometsOrbs Author:Isaac Newton
“Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind ... To move among this bright, strange, often fabulous herd of beings, to summon them at my will, to fasten them on to paper like flies, that they may decorate it, this is the pleasure of writing.” WritingMindMayMovingPleasureStrangePaperEmptyCrowdsFabulousHerdsOf My MindCorridors Book:Personal Pleasures Source: Personal Pleasures
“I cannot say my yes to legends that have been clearly and fancifully created. If I could not move my search beyond angelic messengers, empty tombs, and ghostlike apparitions, I could not say yes to Easter.” IfsHas BeensMovingReligionEmptyIf I CouldLegendsEasterTombsMessengersAngelicApparitions Book:Resurrection: myth or reality? : a bishop's search for the origins of Christianity Source: Resurrection: myth or reality? : a bishop's search for the origins of Christianity
“There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the Bo Tree to a grown man's or woman's old stuffed bear, what moves us about many objects is not what remains but what has vanished. There comes a time, thanks to rivers, when a few beautiful old teeth are all that remain of the two-hundred-foot spires of life we call trees. There comes a river, whose current is time, that does a similar sculpting in the mind.” MenMindDoeTwoEndsBeautifulMovingTreeFeetMiddleObjectsBearsHundredRiversCrossesEmptyEternityRemainsCurrentsTeethRuinsThanksNarrativeFossilsCastlesThere Comes A TimeGrown ManSculptingAll That RemainsSpiresParthenon Author:David James Duncan
“John Kerry says that he wants to debate President Bush once a month until the election. This could be a risky move for Senator Kerry. If Bush doesn't show up for the debates, John Kerry may end up debating an empty chair. And that could be pretty much a toss up as to which one has the better personality.” IfsWantMayEndsShowsMovingPresidentMonthsPersonalityEmptyElectionDebateChairsSenatorsPresident BushBetter PersonTossJohn Kerry Author:Jay Leno
“The whole material world. It doesn't actually exist. Matter is not material. It's made up of atoms that are moving at lightning speeds around huge empty spaces. So as you go beyond the appearance of molecules, you end up with a subatomic world, and if you go beyond that you end up with nothing. Nothing is the source of everything.” IfsWorldMadeEndsMatterWholeMovingSpaceMaterialsHugeSourceEmptyAppearanceSpeedAtomsLightningMoleculesEmpty SpaceMaterial World Author:Deepak Chopra