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1 " She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: " It shines like a little diamond" ," What does?" " This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal. "
2 " The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time?Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world? "
― Jeanette Winterson , Sexing the Cherry
3 " An atom is mostly made up of empty space. If you remove the empty space from every atom, the entire world's human population could fit inside a sugar cube. "
― Weike Wang , Chemistry
4 " Another very good test some readers may want to look up, which we do not have space to describe here, is the Casimir effect, where forces between metal plates in empty space are modified by the presence of virtual particles.Thus virtual particles are indeed real and have observable effects that physicists have devised ways of measuring. Their properties and consequences are well established and well understood consequences of quantum mechanics. "
― Gordon L. Kane
5 " Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it. "
6 " Nothing exists except atoms and empty space everything else is opinion. "
7 " We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees. "
8 " There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. "
― John Cage , Silence: Lectures and Writings
9 " According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time. "
10 " A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand. "
11 " Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart. "
12 " As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do. "
13 " In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe. "
