"Master, it is great fun indeed, to read how Herodotus laughed at historians, scientists, and their theories."
"So would Lucretius, could he read our astronomers and physicians."
"I do not understand."
"He would think that he already had told them all that. The scientists of today reveal a tremendous lot of details but the main issues, Lucretius had already grasped. Read his explanation of our experiencing time [24], read his: 'many elements are common to many things, as letters are to words, rather than to the theory that anything can come into existence without atoms'. Is that not pure gold as True Words? Take his: 'All these facts point to the conclusion that nothing is really solid.' Beautiful is also: 'There is therefore a limitless abyss of space, such that even the dazzling flashes of lightning 300.000 km/sec cannot traverse it in their course, racing through an interminable tract of time, nor can they even shorten the distance still to be covered.' The study of Lucretius by physicists, would be excellent against the temptations for arrogance."