René Descartes Quote

It is contrary to reason to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.


Principia Philosophiae (1644) pt. 2, sect. 16 (translated by E. S. Haldane and G. R. T. Ross)


It is contrary to reason to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.

It is contrary to reason to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.

It is contrary to reason to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.

It is contrary to reason to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.