that when they graduate they have a hard time adjusting to the real world. They didn’t learn enough about other “flocks” to be able to function outside of their comfort zone. This quote originates from the idea of the ancient Greek philosopher Democritus (c.460 BC)‚ who stated: `Creatures flock together with their kind‚ doves with doves‚ and cranes with cranes and so on.’ The author‚ Robert Half was a businessman When I looked up the quote on the internet I found that my findings were confirmed
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what they are used too‚ and they are scared of change. I think that if you never change you will have a hard time adjusting to the real world eventually. This quote originates from the from the idea of the ancient Greek philosopher Democritus (c.460 BC) ‚ who stated: “Creatures flock together when their fine‚ doves with doves‚ and cranes with cranes and so on.” The author Robert Half was businessman. When I looked up the quote on the internet I found that my finding were confirmed.
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vanishingly small‚ a tiny force would produce a very large ``motion’’; in the limit where there is no resistance any force on any body would produce an infinite speed. This conclusion put him in direct contradiction with the ideas of the atomists such as Democritus (see Sect. 2.3.2). Aristotle (of course) concluded the atomists were wrong‚ stating that matter is in fact continuous and infinitely divisible. For falling bodies‚ the force is the weight pulling down a body and the resistance is that of the medium
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natural sciences people have contemplated the exact nature of matter. The idea that matter was built of discrete building blocks‚ the so-called particulate theory of matter‚ was first put forward by the Greek philosophers Leucippus (~490 BC) and Democritus (~470–380
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Unlike most civilizations‚ the Roman Empire did not dabble deeply in the school of philosophic thought. As surprising as that may seem the Roman intellectuals were a more practical people who understood the popularizing ideas of Democritus and Leucippus through the works of the Latin poet Lucretius. Though the Romans mainly stuck to their polytheistic heritage‚ they were fascinated by how their way of thinking could better any situation by practicing stoicism. Under the idea of stoicism‚ Romans could
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According to Galen‚ a later physician‚ Polybus was Hippocrates’ true successor‚ while Thessalus and Draco each had a son named Hippocrates. Soranus said that Hippocrates learned medicine from his father and grandfather‚ and studied other subjects with Democritus and Gorgias. Hippocrates was probably trained at the asklepieion of Kos‚ and took lessons from the Thracian physician Herodicus of Selymbria. The only contemporaneous mention of Hippocrates is in Plato’s dialogue Protagoras‚ where Plato describes
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works inspired the foundation of many communist regimes in the twentieth century. Karl Marx was born in Trier‚ in the German Rhineland‚ in 1818. Marx studied law in Bonn and Berlin‚ and then wrote a PhD thesis in Philosophy‚ comparing the views of Democritus and Epicurus. After he gets his doctorate in 1841 Marx hope for an academic job‚ but he had already fallen in with too radical a group of thinkers and there was no real prospect. Turning to journalism‚ Marx rapidly became involved in political
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Democritus (460 B.C.) - an Ancient Greek philosopher who was born in Abdera‚ Thrace‚ Greece. He was an influential philosopher who formulated an atomic theory for the universe. Antoine Lavoisier (1778 & 1783) - A French nobleman and chemist central to the 18th-century Chemical Revolution and a large influence on both the histories of chemistry and biology. He recognized and named oxygen in 1778 and hydrogen in 1783 Joseph Louis Proust (1799) - a French chemist which discovered each pure compound
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with curiosity potential revolutionaries are mocked every day. An example of this mockery made can be found in the discovery of the atom. The theoy of the existence of the atom was first proposed in the 5th Century B.C by the Greek philosophers Democritus and Leucippus‚ but because they were punished for desire to explore by society at that time‚ the mere possibility of the existence was not considered legitimate until the 19th century‚ where it was formally discovered by John Delton and Amedeo Avogadro
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Egyptian methods of measurements. With the help of his followers he discovered that the earth was a sphere‚ but he did not believe it revolved around the sun. Democritus was the leader of a group called Atomists. Although they were unable to prove that matter was made up of small particles‚ they were the first to come up with the idea. Democritus believed that atoms differed in size‚ shape‚ and movement but were all made of the same substances. Aristotle was the most important scientific philosopher
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