Aristotle accused mechanists such as Democritus and.    From Wordnik.com.  [BEHAVIORISM] Reference

By contrast, atomists such as Democritus took those determinate particular objects they called ˜atoms™ to be the substance of the universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Substance] Reference

Atomists such as Democritus and Lucretius argued that all of nature is the result of random bumps and movements of atoms falling in a plenum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baptist Standard] Reference

Democritus says, Language is the shadow of action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Morals] Reference

Ptolemy; modern physics of that of Democritus and of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference

Hippias of Elis, Hippocrates of Chios, and Democritus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

Is it, said Democritus, equal or not equal to the base?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

Democritus, whose disciple he became, lived earlier still.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference

It is atoms which think in us, said Epicurus after Democritus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cobwebs of Thought] Reference

Among the prisoners taken at this time was found Democritus the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference

Democritus, Jr., and he is an advocate of the laughing philosophy.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference

Theophrastus, Democritus, and Xenophon; and Latin writers like Cato and Varro.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

Kanada, the atomist philosopher of India, lived three centuries before Democritus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference

Democritus was as much a philosopher as Heraclitus, and he lived fifty years longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference

Atomic Theory of Democritus, held by Epicurus, that the world consists of atoms and void.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

Nay, we may do by the eye of our faith, what some report Democritus did by his bodily eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fletcher of Madeley] Reference

Democritus wrote a large number of mathematical treatises, the titles only of which are preserved.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

If we are to look for the origin of this idea we must go back to Democritus, Epicurus, and Lucretius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884] Reference

Joliet, like Democritus and Plato, saw everything with his own eyes, learned everything at first hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference

Persians, the dreams of the Asclepiads, the numbers of Pythagoras, and the theory of atoms of Democritus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference

Joliet, whom I have erred perhaps in comparing to Democritus, was nevertheless a laugher and a philosopher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference

The Democritus referred to was a famous Greek philosopher, born about 470 B.C., who taught the atomic theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from Poe] Reference

The scope of the Books is as follows: Books i. and ii. state the physical theories of Democritus and Epicurus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

Democritus, Epicurus, and Lucretius that "Dust thou art, to dust returnest" is spoken of soul as well as body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horace and His Influence] Reference

Democritus, the earth was flat, and the eddy or vortex which gave rise to the world was still rotation in a plane.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

Democritus used to walk down to the haven at Abdera and pick matter for mirth out of the humours of waterside life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

From the context they would mean as we say, "living on air;" like Democritus, who subsisted three days upon the steam of new loaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850] Reference

Heraclitus sells -- Democritus holds; and thus the great point of wisdom at issue between them, is reduced to a mere question of time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference

These great men -- great in natural powers and in philosophic training -- had seen just what the speculations of Democritus, Lucretius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference

Democritus of Abdera (460-361 B.C.), celebrated as the 'laughing philosopher,' whose constant thought was 'What fools these mortals be.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations] Reference

In line with this treatment, Democritus affirmed that diseases are capable of being cured by the sound of a flute, when properly played.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference

Herodicus, and to have been taught philosophy by Gorgias, the Sophist, and by Democritus, whom he afterwards cured of mental derangement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference

"Democritus to the Reader," in which Burton sets out his reasons for writing the treatise and for assuming the name of Democritus Junior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

Lastly, Archimedes tells us that Democritus was the first to state, though he could not give a rigorous proof, that the volume of a cone or.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

Democritus says, "men form new ideas for the day," and betake themselves to their various pursuits with mutual impetuosity, as if drawn by a strong impulse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Morals] Reference

Aristotle himself and Democritus and Chrysippus have rejected without trouble or pain, and even with pleasure, some of the opinions which they formerly advocated?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Morals] Reference