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What have we learned so far?

Democritus: Proposed the idea of atoms (atom meaning 'un-cuttable' in Greek). The world is all Lego blocks; shapes and objects are not eternal, but the pieces themselves are.

Socrates: People are quick to be content with truths and knowledge as far as they are useful to them, but if examined from the ground up, people will realize they really do not know anything.