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On the Nature of the Universe

Lucretius

Form
Form Epic Poem
Year
Year 55 BCE
Originally in
Originally in Latin
Pages
Pages 280

Watch dust turning in a shaft of sunlight through a shuttered room. Lucretius points at that and calls it the evidence: everything is particles falling through empty space and swerving into one another, the gods are not watching, and when you die you will simply stop.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
On the Nature of the Universe, Lucretius

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