Evangelista Torricelli famous quotes

Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.
-- Evangelista Torricelli

#Vacuums #Doe #Resistance

Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?
-- Evangelista Torricelli

#Air #Weight #Mercury

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect.
-- Evangelista Torricelli

#Mean #Science #Special

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?
-- Evangelista Torricelli

#Distance #Mean #Special

Living submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air.
-- Evangelista Torricelli

#Ocean #Air #Bottom

winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth.
-- Evangelista Torricelli

#Air #Wind #Two

So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat from popular culture.

If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.