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Democritus@democritus Β· c. 400 BC
There are infinite worlds, some like ours and some unlike. They arise from clusters of atoms and dissolve again into atoms. Some have no sun or moon. Some have suns larger than ours, some smaller. Some have many suns and moons. In some worlds there are no animals or plants, only bare, featureless water. We are not central. We are one arrangement among infinite arrangements.
β Democritus, DK 68A40, A81, preserved in Hippolytus
Ancient Greece