Universe Today
Birth and Early Life:
Scientific Contributions:
Atomic Theory:
Everything is composed of "atoms", which are physically, but not geometrically, indivisible
Between atoms, there lies empty space
Atoms are indestructible
Atoms have always been, and always will be, in motion
There are an infinite number of atoms, and kinds of atoms, which differ in shape, and size.
"That atoms and the vacuum were the beginning of the universe; and that everything else existed only in opinion. That the worlds were infinite, created, and perishable. But that nothing was created out of nothing, and that nothing was destroyed so as to become nothing. That the atoms were infinite both in magnitude and number, and were borne about through the universe in endless revolutions. And that thus they produced all the combinations that exist; fire, water, air, and earth; for that all these things are only combinations of certain atoms; which combinations are incapable of being affected by external circumstances, and are unchangeable by reason of their solidity."