1 post tagged “atoms”
this is one of my favorite quotes ever. I fell in love with the person who shared this quote with me.
When atoms are traveling straight down through empty space by their own weight, at quite in determinate times and places, they swerve every so little from their course, just so much that you would call it a change of direction. It it were not for this swerve, everything would fall downwards through the abyss of space. No collision would take place and no impact of atom on atom would be created. Thus nature would never have created anything.
-Lucretius 99bc-55bc - quoted in Manuel de Landa's 1000 years of non-linear history
