On the Nature of Things
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 2010-10-13
- Publisher
- Richer Resources Publications
- Retrieved
- Apr 12, 2011
3 memes from this reference
Only Atoms are Immortal
... moving randomly through space, like dust motes in a sunbeam, colliding, hooking together, forming complex structures, breaking apart again, in a ceaseless process of creation and destruction. There is no escape from this process. ... There is no master plan, no divine architect, no intelligent design. All things…
We are as Children in the Dark
[A]s children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror . . .
On the Nature of Things...
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings-the things thus grow Until we know and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know. Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go…