Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch.3
“878. It's more paine to doe nothing then something.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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“But if nothing does as well as something about which nothing can be said, it vanishes.”
Simon Blackburn (1944) British academic philosopher
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Five, God, p. 173
“The man's the work. Something does not come out of nothing.”
Edward Hopper (1882–1967) prominent American realist painter and printmaker
Hopper's answer to journalists -quoted by Avis Berman in 'Hopper, the Supreme American Realist of the 20th Century' Smithsonian Magazine June 2007
1941 - 1967
“Nothing is going to change, unless someone does something soon”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
“Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.”
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
Source: The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer
The Rubaiyat (1120)
“If there's nothing in here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?”
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Richter II p. 126 no. 837 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=A7dUhbBfmzMC&pg=PA126 <br class="br">The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
