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a mighty shame it was not fully recovered, though. guess we're lucky to have it at all. stole the thunder from darwin, einstein, kinsey and countless many. ...more
a mighty shame it was not fully recovered, though. guess we're lucky to have it at all. stole the thunder from darwin, einstein, kinsey and countless many. ...more
It is so incredible that Democritus hypothesized that the universe was made up of atoms. It is even more incredible to read this Epicurean poem--written ~50BCE, a few hundred years after Democritus--by the roman poet Lucretius. It is where poetry and science meet: Cicero was known to have praised it, and the keen perception that goes in to describing how everything in the world follows natural laws is amazing. Lucretius may have been wrong on a lot (although he was either right or on the right t
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I listened to this as an audiobook and I would frequently get distracted and stop listening because I was so bored. Science is definitely not one of my strong interests.
Very entertaining epicurean look at physics and natural philosophy, beautifully poetic at times.
His main aim seems to be describing how things happen naturally and with no intervention from the gods, so there’s no need to worry about the gods...or anything else for that matter. Just worry about creating a life without stress abs strain.
I wholeheartedly agree with the last bit!
His main aim seems to be describing how things happen naturally and with no intervention from the gods, so there’s no need to worry about the gods...or anything else for that matter. Just worry about creating a life without stress abs strain.
I wholeheartedly agree with the last bit!
The best example of ancient epicurean materialist philosophy.
Aug 17, 2015
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