Evangelista Torricelli Quotes

#1. The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?

Evangelista Torricelli

#2. Living submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air.

Evangelista Torricelli

#3. Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.

Maajid Nawaz

#4. Tut, tut," said Professor Umbridge. "That won't do, now, will it? I should like you, please, to reply 'Good afternoon, Professor Umbridge.' One more time, please. Good afternoon, class!

J.K. Rowling

#5. We have made many glass vessels ... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.

Evangelista Torricelli

#6. I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.

Sargent Shriver

#7. Winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth.

Evangelista Torricelli

#8. We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.

Bob Odenkirk

#9. I need a girl night. And you ... " She divided a look between them. "You two need a cooling-off period." She shoved a brownie in Cam's hand, then pushed him over the threshold and shut the door in his face. "There. I thought he'd never leave.

Jill Shalvis

#10. Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.

Robert Morley

#11. Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.

Evangelista Torricelli

#12. Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?

Evangelista Torricelli

#13. We're quietly aching for something to celebrate

Mark Nepo