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Anaxagoras, born around 500 BC and died in 428 BC, was a renowned Greek philosopher. He is considered one of the pioneers of atomism, proposing the theory that all things are composed of infinite small particles called 'seeds'. Anaxagoras' philosophical ideas had a profound impact on later generations, especially in the field of natural sciences.

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“There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.”

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“The sun provides the moon with its brightness.”

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“Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate.”

Might Becoming Corruption Cease Destroyed Greek

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“Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.”

Appearance Glimpse

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“Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.”

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“The descent to Hades is the same from every place.”

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“The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.”

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“And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it possible that they should exist apart, but all things have a portion of everything.”

Should Would Be Science Numbers Existence Equal All Things Portions

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“The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.”

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“All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself.”

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“Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.”

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“In everything, there is a share of everything”

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Book:Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: Fragments and Testimonia : a Text and Translation with Notes and Essays

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“The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed together and dissociated from the things that are. And thus they would be correct to call coming-to-be mixing-together and passing-away dissociating”

Thinking Would Be Together Passing Passings Greek Passing Away Mixing

Book:Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: Fragments and Testimonia : a Text and Translation with Notes and Essays

Source: Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: Fragments and Testimonia : a Text and Translation with Notes and Essays

“Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.”

Ifs Men Two Taken Mines Quiet

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“It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.”

Lost Athenians Lost Me

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“All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.”

Together Numbers All Things Infinite Smallness

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“The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.”

Science Life Is Purpose Heaven Space Sun Moon Astronomy Purpose Of Life Investigation

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“Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.”

Appearance Unseen Glimpse

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“The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.”

Earth Science Universe Force Stars Mystery Mass Red Stones Hot Thrown Torn Rotation Red Hot

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“The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.”

Littles Science Universe Sun Mystery Mass Stones Greece Fiery

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“Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what is should cease to be). Likewise there is always something larger than what is large.”

Should Science Impossible Cease Atoms Smallest

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About the Author

Born: 500 BC
Died: 428 BC
Known for: Philosopher
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