“In a vacuum which is imagined as infinite there cannot be local differences, both on account of its infinity, and also because of the fact that the vacuum, if it exists, would have no nature but a privation, and therefore it can have no natural differences.”
Commentarius in VIII Libros Physicorum Aristoteles (c. 1230-1235)
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Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Natura abhorret vacuum. <br class="br"> Chapter 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=tBROAAAAcAAJ&q=%22natura+abhorret+vacuum%22&pg=PA22#v=onepage. <br class="br">Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534)
“I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.”
Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
As quoted in The Christian Science Monitor (20 December 1984)
Robert Grosseteste (1175–1253) English bishop and philosopher
Commentarius in VIII Libros Physicorum Aristoteles (c. 1230-1235)
Raphael Bousso (1971) American physicist
"Holographic probabilities in eternal inflation." Physical review letters 97, no. 19 (2006): 191302. arXiv preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0605263
“Nature abhors a vacuum, and I don’t like it much either.”
Robert Sheckley book Mindswap
Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 32 (p. 153)
Walter Reuther (1907–1970) Labor union leader
Statement to the Senate Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections, Washington, D.C., October 9, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 170
1950s, Statement to the Senate Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections (1956)
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
German orgiginal: Dimensionslose Konstanten in den Naturgesetzen, die vom rein logischen Standpunkt aus ebensogut andere Werte haben können, dürfte es nicht geben.
As quoted in Begegnungen mit Einstein, von Laue, und Planck (1988) by Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider, p. 31, English edition Reality and Scientific Truth : Discussions with Einstein, von Laue, and Planck (1980) by Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider
Attributed in posthumous publications
Dinesh D'Souza (1961) Indian-American political commentator, filmmaker, author
Source: Books, The End of Racism (1995), Ch. 11