The Review of Metaphysics, March 1st, 2000
"What is it that breathes fire into the equations?"
Stephen Hawking
LUCRETIUS, AFTER HE HAS EXPOUNDED THAT NOTHING comes out of nothing and nothing goes into nothing, and there are only bodies and void, turns to three pre-Socratics: Heraclitus, Empedocles, and Anaxagoras.(1) He characterizes Heraclitus, clarus ob obscuram linguam, as having a bright principle (fire) and a dark account; he says of Empedocles, than whom Sicily nil ... habuisse praeclarius ... videtur, that his principles (the four elements) are as bright as his song about them; and he says of Anaxagoras, who must resort to q...
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