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Essay on Atomism: From Democritus to 1960 (1961)
“A clue to the future must lie in the past... every scientist, and everyone with intellectual curiosity, can learn something useful from a brief study of the history of atomism.”
Essay on Atomism: From Democritus to 1960 (1961), p.4
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