Boscovich Quotes & Sayings

Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

It will be found that everything depends on the composition of the forces with which the particles of matter act upon one another; and from these forces, as a matter of fact, all phenomena of Nature take their origin. — Roger Joseph Boscovich

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy. — Roger Joseph Boscovich

For while Copernicus has persuaded us to believe, contrary to all the senses, that the earth does NOT stand fast, Boscovich has taught us to abjure the belief in the last thing that "stood fast" of the earth - the belief in "substance," in "matter," in the earth-residuum, and particle-atom: it is the greatest triumph over the senses that has hitherto been gained on earth. — Friedrich Nietzsche