Evangelista Torricelli quotes

Evangelista Torricelli was an Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for inventing the barometer. His work laid important foundations for both physics and meteorology. He made significant contributions to the study of fluid dynamics and atmospheric pressure. Here are 4 of his quotes:

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

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

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