Democritus
Greek philosopher (c. 460-c. 370 BC) · Academics · Lived 460 BC to 360 BC · aged 100
Democritus is read about 1,641 times a day, in 105 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 27 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?He said the universe was made of tiny, indivisible particles colliding in a void - twenty-three centuries before anyone could prove it.
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, Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow.
Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].
About this person
Democritus came from Abdera in the fifth century BC and wrote across subjects now lost to us entirely, surviving only in fragments and rivals' accounts. Aristotle referenced him constantly, treating him as a serious opponent in natural philosophy. The atomic theory - matter composed of unsplittable units moving through empty space - was his signature claim, a guess built on logic rather than instruments. Antiquity nicknamed him the laughing philosopher, not for frivolity but for his insistence that cheerfulness had intrinsic worth. Everything he wrote is gone; what remains are the breadcrumbs others left behind.
Academics born in the 460s BC 4
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