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

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

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And since the portions of both the large and the small are equal in amount, in this way too all thin...

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Anaxagoras

Philosopher

Born: 0500-01-01 BC

Died: 0428-01-01 BC

Anaxagoras (c. 500 BC – 428 BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Clazomenae in Asia Minor. He introduced the concept of Nous (Mind), as an ordering force in the cosmos. He regarded material substance as an infinite multitude of imperishable primary elements, referring all generation and disappearance to mixture and separation respectively.More