Source: The Book of Nothing (2009), chapter nought "Nothingology—Flying to Nowhere"<!-- p. 11-->
“There was always something left: a vacuum energy that permeated every fibre of the Universe.”
Source: The Book of Nothing (2009), chapter nought "Nothingology—Flying to Nowhere"<!-- p. 10-->
Context: The quantum revolution showed us why the old picture of a vacuum as an empty box was untenable.... Gradually, this exotic new picture of quantum nothingness succumbed to experimental exploration... in the form of vacuum tubes, light bulbs and X-rays. Now the 'empty' space itself started to be probed.... There was always something left: a vacuum energy that permeated every fibre of the Universe.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
John D. Barrow 58
British scientist 1952–2020Related quotes
New York Times Book Review, February 14, 1993
“Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates.”
"Two or Three Ideas" (1951); later published in Opus Posthumous (1959)
Context: Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
“I regret entering that building with every fibre of my body.”
5 March 2021 report by BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-56301083
Page 282 of An Anthropologist On Mars By Oliver Sacks
Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter II Planning a Model World
“A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.”
Ἀδικεῖ πολλάκις ὁ μὴ ποιῶν τι, οὐ μόνον ὁ ποιῶν τι.
IX, 5
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX