61 Quotes About Vacuums

So it is that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, philosophy abhors an answer, for once the truth is truly attained, the game is truly up.

‎In modern physics, there is no such thing as "nothing." Even in a perfect vacuum, pairs of virtual particles are constantly being created and destroyed. The existence of these particles is no mathematical fiction. Though they cannot be directly observed, the effects they create are quite real. The assumption that they exist leads to predictions that have been confirmed by experiment to a high degree of accuracy.

She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. "You're going to vacuum up that squirrel!"There is just no predicting what kind of sentences you might say, thought Flora. For instance, who would ever think you would shout, "You're going to vacuum up that squirrel!"?

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

My heart and my trust were in the process of collapsing. And that collapse created a vacuum in my chest.

When you're doing a movie, you're in a vacuum, just going, "Well, that's done. Let's see what happens."

There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.