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title: "4 Metrodorus of Chios Quotes"
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# Metrodorus of Chios

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Metrodorus of Chios was a Greek philosopher, belonging to the school of Democritus, and an important forerunner of Epicurus.

##  Quotes by Metrodorus of Chios

> [It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/metrodorus-of-chios/it-is-unnatural-in-a-large-field-to-have-only-one-shaft-of-wheat-and/)

Metrodorus of Chios

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bb/metrodorus-of-chios-71814_fields_it-is-unnatural-in-a-large-field-to-have_1810906.jpg)

> [To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/metrodorus-of-chios/to-consider-the-earth-as-the-only-populated-world-in-infinite-space/)

Metrodorus of Chios

[Absurd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absurd/)

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> [A single ear of corn in a large field is as strange as a single world in infinite space.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/metrodorus-of-chios/a-single-ear-of-corn-in-a-large-field-is-as-strange-as-a-single-world/)

Metrodorus of Chios

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e92/metrodorus-of-chios-71814_corn_a-single-ear-of-corn-in-a-large-field-is_2681567.jpg)

> [None of us knows anything, not even whether we know or do not know, nor do we know whether not knowing and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/metrodorus-of-chios/none-of-us-knows-anything-not-even-whether-we-know-or-do-not-know-nor/)

Metrodorus of Chios

[Engineering](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/engineering/)

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