Lucretius

1 Lucretius deepened and refined this view, packaging his revolutionary ideas in a most palatable form: a poem.

2 For Epicurus and Lucretius, what matters about atoms is their size, shape and movement.

3 In matters of philosophy, he denounced Romanticism, recovered the teachings of Lucretius, and provoked Nietzsche, Mach, James, Hilbert, and Wittgenstein.

4 His most significant find, located in a German monastery, was a copy of Lucretius’ “On the Nature of Things,” which had been lost to history for more than a thousand years.

5 Lucretius adopts a material atomism that holds that things are composed of atoms in motion.

6 Set down the creation of the universe as related in Genesis and then add the pagan version outlined by Lucretius and both suddenly invite debate and discussion.

7 The same phrase is then employed by Newton in his definition of inertia; he evidently took the phrase from Descartes, and discovered only later that it originated in Lucretius.

8 The atomic reality that Lucretius describes is not an isolated phenomenon—it is not a separate realm of electrons and nuclei, electromagnetic fields, particles and waves.

9 It’s possible to admire Mr. Greenblatt’s book while wishing it contained more of the boldness and weirdness he admires in Lucretius.

10 Roman poet Lucretius, intellectual heir to the Greek atomists, believed its formation must have been relatively recent, given that there were no records going back beyond the Trojan War.

11 Lucretius had a rich source of inspiration: the teachings of Greek philosopher Epicurus, who two centuries earlier put forward the shocking idea that pursuit of pleasure could and should be a higher calling.

12 The philosopher Lucretius is the hero of the story, and Lightman recounts how the Roman’s works played a key role in the development of his own thinking.

13 Lucretius played down the beauty of his own poetry, Mr. Greenblatt observes, comparing his verses “to honey smeared around the lip of a cup containing medicine that a sick man might otherwise refuse to drink.”

14 The “seeds of disease” were almost certainly influenced by Democritean atomism and took inspiration from the Roman poet Lucretius, whose work had been rediscovered in the 15th century.

15 So there he is, among this philosophical elite, who share the rediscovered wisdom of such ancient authors as Plato and Lucretius, recently rediscovered in Florence.

16 The Lucretius problem is exacerbated by the fact data captured in the past is not necessarily as reliable or as complete as data captured today.

17 Mr. Stewart argues that America’s founders drew inspiration not so much from Christianity and British political theory but rather from ancient pagan philosophers like Lucretius, and from Spinoza’s concept of natural divinity.

18 Lucretius knew that the two domains are sides of the same coin, that the one does not exist without the other.

19 The word that Lucretius used for “atom” is the same word he used for “letter of the alphabet.”

20 As subjects, Lucretius and Browne could hardly be less alike.

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