古代唯物主义与原子论的伟大集大成者（与其老师留基伯共同创立）。主张宇宙由不可分割的最小物质粒子“原子”以及原子运动的空间“虚空”构成，一切变化皆是原子的聚合与分散。
A native of Abdera in Thrace, born into great wealth, who traveled widely in pursuit of knowledge and spent his fortune. Known as "the laughing philosopher" for his cheerful detachment, he made contributions across physics, mathematics, zoology, and aesthetics.
The father of ancient materialism and physical reductionism. With his teacher Leucippus he founded atomism: the cosmos consists solely of atoms (indivisible particles) and void. Atoms differ only in size, shape, and arrangement, not in qualitative properties. They collide and combine according to strict mechanical causation, producing the macroscopic world. This system eliminated all supernatural agency, explaining all phenomena as geometric configurations of matter.
"By convention there is sweet and bitter, hot and cold; but in reality there are only atoms and void."
现代物理学成功证实了原子的物理运行。当把我们的‘爱与灵魂’都彻底拆解还原为脑电波中的原子与化学电荷碰撞时，你会感到对生命的极度祛魅伤感，还是会对自然极尽精细的秩序感到叹服？
Democritus turned toward the vast natural world and its purposeless mechanical causation. Socrates rejected natural philosophy as irrelevant, redirecting inquiry toward the human soul and insisting that the pursuit of virtue, not physics, is the sole path to wisdom.
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