Evangelista Torricelli Quotes

Nature abhors a vacuum.

It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.

Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the rhythm of the earth and of nature. Life is the cry of cicadas signalling the end of summer, migratory birds winging south in a transparent autumn sky, fish frolicking in a stream. Life is the joy beautiful music installs in us, the thrilling sight of a mountain peak reddened by the rising sun, the myriad combinations and permutations of visible and invisible phenomena. Life is all things.

The rose has no 'Why?' It flowers because it flowers.

We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.

Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

Nothing may truly be said to be a miracle except in the profound sense that everything is a miracle.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams And desires to stir, to resist a ghost of pain.

Life will find a way.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

In order to exist, man must rebel.

If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.

In your hands The dog, the donkey, surely they know They are alive. Who would argue otherwise? But now, after years of consideration, I am getting beyond that. What about the sunflowers? What about The tulips, and the pines? Listen, all you have to do is start and There’ll be no stopping. What about mountains? What about water Slipping over rocks? And speaking of stones, what about The little ones you can Hold in your hands, their heartbeats So secret, so hidden it may take years Before, finally, you hear them?

It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.

Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than that inconceivably complex movement which, in its entirety, we designate as human life; Its mysterious origin is veiled in the forever impenetrable mist of the past, its character is rendered incomprehensible by its infinite intricacy, and its destination is hidden in the unfathomable depths of the future... .

We're just a weed in the universe

But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing.