Treatise · Scientific literatureGod in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable Particles, of such Sizes and Figures, and with such other Properties, and in such Proportion to Space, as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them.Isaac NewtonOpticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light · 1704★ 5.4
Poem · Didactic poem · Philosophical literatureMaterial objects are of two kinds, atoms and components of atoms. The atoms themselves cannot be swamped by any force, for they are preserved indefinitely by their absolute solidity.LucretiusOn the Nature of Things · 55 BC★ 2.0
LectureIf, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed and into one another.Richard Feynman1961★ 1.8
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