THE Greek philosopher Democritus was not the first person to suggest matter is made of tiny particles. But he got the credit when scientists finally accepted the idea 2,000 years after his death. D… ...

The ancient thinker Democritus is considered by many to be the father of modern science and is known for his theory that everything is made of atoms. He believed that knowledge was something to be ...

DEMOCRITUS : LAUGHING BUDDHA : QUOTES - There’s no better person to learn from in this respect than Democritus, that ancient atomist and scientist unkindly forgotten, and one particular episode ...

While this may sound surprisingly modern as a view, as amateur historian Tim O'Neill points out, Democritus was living in a time before we realized the stars were other suns, and these "other ...

Plato apparently disliked Democritus so much, he wished that all of his books would be burned. " [Plato] believed that ideas were far more real than the natural world," Sagan said. "He advised the ...

God and the Atom: From Democritus to the Higgs Boson: The Story of a Triumphant Idea Victor J. Stenger. Prometheus, $25 (300p) ISBN 978-1-61614-753-2 ...

The renewed success of ancient atomism in the seventeenth century has baffled historians not only because of the lack of empirical evidence in its favor but also because of the exotic heterogeneity of ...

Ever since Democritus – a Greek philosopher who lived between the 5th and 4th century's BCE – argued that all of existence was made up of tiny indivisible atoms, scientists have been ...