It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.

All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.

In everything, there is a share of everything

And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it possible that they should exist apart, but all things have a portion of everything.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.