Democritus

For me, one of the great insights of Fundamentals was the way you explained that particles are not just smaller versions of the atoms that Democritus imagined floating in space.

Democritus raised us to the noble thought that, small as it is, a single atom may constitute a world.

This argument is fallacious, no less than the other against Democritus.

This, then, is the cause which Democritus alleges for this fulness of the Nile.

In the nests of Arabian birds was the aspilates, that, according to Democritus, kept the wearer from any danger by fire.

What was it—that something more profound than the well of Democritus—which lay far within the pupils of my beloved?