Atomism had no absolute 'above' and 'below' and no such rulers, so favoured the undersranding of justice as an agreement amongst equals. — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Leibniz accepted the argument that there must be indestructible simple entities if there is to be a complex world, but Epicurean morals… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
“Atomism was viciously persecuted as heresy throughout the early Christian era, and only one printed manuscript of De Rerum Naturum survived the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Whoso meditates on the Omniscient, the Ancient, more minute than the atom, yet the Ruler and Upholder of all, Unimaginable, Brilliant like… — Shri Purohit Swami Copy Share Image
BERTRAND RUSSELL, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism We've associated that word philosophy with academic study that in its own way has gotten… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The same objections lie against the doctrine of the world having originated from atoms. For on that doctrine one atom when combining… — Adi Shankaracarya Copy Share Image
“Around the same time Democritus (ca 460 BC–ca. 370 BC), from an Ionian colony in northern Greece, pondered what happened when you… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image