Writer and university professor David Foster Wallace said, “The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to overintellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract ...

Stenger, an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Hawaii, argues in this quick philosophical treatise and history of atomic theory that the existence of the atom proves that God doesn’t ...

History is full of wild guesses that turned out to be exactly right. Some of the most startling moments in science, astronomy, and world events were quietly sketched out centuries - sometimes ...

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.

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Democritus, a Greek scholar who is best known for his atomic theory, explains a profound truth about the nature of happiness in his thought. Democritus says 'Happiness resides not in possessions, and ...