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 ...

History is full of wild guesses that turned out to be exactly right. Some of the most startling moments in science, astronomy ...

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 ...

IT is the epic of the successive dynasties of the atom that Mr. Gregory sets himself to recount in his very interesting book. From Democritus, who was the first to discuss atoms, down to the present ...