Epicurus ... supposes not only all mixt bodies, but all…

“I am now convinced that we have recently become possessed of experimental evidence of the discrete or grained nature of matter, which the atomic…

— Wilhelm Ostwald

“In the vestibule of the Manchester Town Hall are placed two life-sized marble statues facing each other. One of these is that of John…

— Henry Enfield Roscoe

“After the discovery of spectral analysis no one trained in physics could doubt the problem of the atom would be solved when physicists had…

— Arnold Sommerfeld

“We may regard the cell quite apart from its familiar morphological aspects, and contemplate its constitution from the purely chemical standpoint. We are obliged…

— Paul Ehrlich

“In the last four days I have got the (results) given by Tantalum, Chromium, Manganese, Iron , Nickel, Cobalt and Copper ... The chief…

— Henry Moseley

“If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war. […

— Ernest Rutherford

“The popular conception of any philosophical doctrine is necessarily imperfect, and very generally unjust. Lucretius is often alluded to as an atheistical writer, who…

— Fleeming Jenkin

“Companionship was at the top of Epicurus's list of life's pleasures. He wrote, 'Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live…

— Daniel Klein

“Epicurus was a philosopher who asserted a deistic worldview, i.e. one in which the gods are wholly separate from the universe and human affairs.…

— Yaakov Malkin

When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand in this…

— Thomas Reid

“Epicurus said you should live for pleasure - adding that nothing brings more pleasure than a little sun and a glass of water. It…

— Benoît Duteurtre

Epicurus thought that friendship and conviviality, which require present attention rather than being in an alcoholic stupor, as well as trying to understand and…

— Catherine Wilson

“Contemplating Clodia I find scarcely a drop in my heart of that compassion which Epicurus enjoins us to extend toward the erring.”

— Thornton Wilder

I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose…

— Lucian

“When Epicurus defined happiness as the supreme good, he warned his disciples that it is hard work to be happy. Material achievements alone will…

— Yuval Noah Harari