A Quote by John R. Pierce

Nature abhors the vacuum tube.

John R. Pierce

Quote Topics

Nature Tube Vacuum

Quote Author

John R. Pierce
American - Engineer
March 27, 1910 - April 2, 2002

From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."

Soseki Natsume

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

Mark McKinnon

Whenever you exclude God and the value system that He represents out of the equation of a life, of a family, or a culture, you create a spiritual vacuum. Nature abhors a vacuum. It must be filled with something.

Tony Evans

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Francois Rabelais

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

Baruch Spinoza

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

Clare Boothe Luce

Every student of physics knows the axiom 'nature abhors a vacuum.' A little known corollary is that 'rowing coaches detest sending their crews in early.' Coaches will always find something to fill the end-of-practice vacuum.

Brad Alan Lewis

But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.

Jojo Moyes

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.

Vanna Bonta

Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

George Will

It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call themselves unbelievers often use the word gesturally, as a ready-made synonym for mystery. But if nature abhors a vacuum, Christ abhors a vagueness. If God is love, Christ is love for this one person, this one place, this one time-bound and time-ravaged self.

Christian Wiman

Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.