Atoms Quote by Wilhelm Dilthey

“If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.”

Wilhelm Dilthey

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