Democritus Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

  Democritus

  Motivational, Philosophy, Science

  Diogenes Laertius, vol.9.

• Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

  Democritus

  Science, Fruit, Chance

• By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention color is color. But in reality there are atoms and the void. That is, the objects of sense are supposed to be real and it is customary to regard them as such, but in truth they are not. Only the atoms and the void are real.

  Democritus

  Sweet, Truth, Real

  "Source Book in Ancient Philosophy". Book by Charles Montague Bakewell, 1907.

• I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries; I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries and climes, and have heard more speeches of learned men. No one has surpassed me in the composition of lines, according to demonstration, not even the Egyptian knotters of ropes, or geometers.

  Democritus

  Country, Learning, Science

• Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where their shapes were such as to permit them to interlock, they began to form clusters. Water, air, fire, and earth, these are simply different clusters of the changeless atoms.

  Democritus

  Moving, Science, Fire

• We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.

  Democritus

  Lying, Science, Reality

• These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

  Democritus

  Science, Differences, Atoms

• All things happen by virtue of necessity.

  Democritus

  Science, Virtue, All Things

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