#Empedocles

“The four elements that ruled science and medicine for two thousand years began as one flamboyant Sicilian's answer to a logic puzzle — and legend says he died leaping into a volcano to prove he was a god.”

“Nothing is ever truly born and nothing truly dies. Everything around you is a temporary mixture of four everlasting "roots" — earth, air, fire, and water — stirred together and pulled apart by two cosmic forces, Love and Strife.”