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Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate.
quoted in Madison Smartt Bell in Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution 2005 | ||
