If we assume that the last breath of, say, Julius Caesar, has by now become thoroughly… — James Jeans

If we assume that the last breath of, say, Julius Caesar, has by now become thoroughly scattered through the atmosphere, then the chances are that each of us inhales one molecule of it with every breath we take.

An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases · 1940
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Jeans, James. An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases. Cambridge University Press, 1940, ch. 2.