As scientists try to understand the basic building blocks of the universe they keep delving into nothing…here are some thoughts on Nothing.
We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds what we want.
--Tao-Te Ching
Nothing is too wonderful to be true.
-- Michael Faraday
It could be that the real universe….is perhaps what has been started by some disastrous experiment performed some twenty billion years ago by a post-graduate student in order to test the structure of a vacuum of another universe.
-- Johann Rafelski and Berndt Muller
Anybody who knows all about nothing knows everything.
-- Leonard Susskind, Physicist, Stanford University
The zero is something that must be there in order to say that nothing is there.
-- Karl Menninger
Every craftsman searches for what’s not there to practice his craft.
-- thirteenth-century poet Rumi, Work and Emptiness
Although atoms are way more than 99.99 percent empty space, I have a real problem in walking through a wall.
-- Leon Lederman, The God Particle
The idea of a void – of emptiness, nothingness, spacelessness, placelessness, all such “lessness” – is at once abhorrent and inconceivable; and yet it haunts us in the strangest, most paradoxical way: “Nothing is more real than nothing.”
-- Oliver Sacks, The Oxford Companion to the Mind
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
-- Martin Gardner, The Mathematical Magic Show
One of the most surprising recent advances in cosmology is that 75% of the Universe seems to be made of nothing.
-- Charles Lineweaver
There is a deeper message here: Your own body is a phantom, one that your brain has temporarily constructed purely for convenience.
-- V. S. Ramachandran
Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
Nothing matters.
-- J. C. Thomas
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