Writer and university professor David Foster Wallace said, “The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to overintellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract ...

Stenger, an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Hawaii, argues in this quick philosophical treatise and history of atomic theory that the existence of the atom proves that God doesn’t ...

THE Greek philosopher Democritus was not the first person to suggest matter is made of tiny particles. But he got the credit when scientists finally accepted the idea 2,000 years after his death.

Democritus, a Greek scholar who is best known for his atomic theory, explains a profound truth about the nature of happiness in his thought. Democritus says 'Happiness resides not in possessions, and ...

The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures In a world that often equates bravery with visible acts of strength—winning battles, defeating rivals, or standing firm in the ...