Svante Arrhenius Quotes

Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary.

Like many of the ideas that mattered in the American Revolution, extraterrestrials got their start in antiquity. The Greek philosopher Epicurus speculated that the universe must be infinite, eternal and abounding in 'worlds' just like our own.

The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind.

He [Democritus] is probably best known for two of the most scientifically intuitive quotes ever uttered by an ancient: 'Nothing exists except atoms and space, everything else is opinion'.

When I was In high school, I became interested in Greek mythology. I had to know all about the exact dates of all the history.

I love Greek history. I love Roman history.

The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

Nothing exists but atoms and the void.

A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight.

Sometimes when you meet someone, there’s a click. I don’t believe in love at first sight but I believe in that click. Recognition.

She was crawling out from under the huge tour bus when he first caught sight of her. She was small, like a child.

There is no such thing as love at first sight, Bryan. There's only sex at first sight.

I guess you could say Alexander the Great was a man who completely transported me and moved me and inspired me because of his idealism, and I'd go back to the Greeks, and I always liked Homer and all the philosophers and their way of thinking and their concept of honor. I think their concept of honor does apply to the modern age, and certain people that walk around are pre-Christian.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.

When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.

The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.

We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known to us was probably a nickname bestowed by his followers. According to one source, it meant ‘He who spoke truth like an oracle’. Rather than entrust his mathematical and philosophical ideas to paper, Pythagoras is said to have expounded them before large crowds. The world’s most famous mathematician was also its first rhetorician.

is love at first sight truly possible?

I've definitely had a few moments in my life where I've seen somebody and it's blown me away at first sight, but I guess of those few scenarios, none of them have been like... I'm not married.

One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on.