Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present.

There is no place in nature for extinction.

... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

Fear is the mother of all gods.

Continual dropping wears away a stone.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.