Lucretius
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#Lucretius
Lucretius · c. 99–c. 55 BCE
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“He turned physics into poetry to cure people of fear — and his poem survived the Middle Ages by a single thread, was rediscovered in 1417, and helped spark the modern world.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“The universe is nothing but atoms moving in empty space — and once you truly see that, the two great terrors of human life, the gods and death, lose their power over you.”
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