- I wonder what would happen if I took a lump of matter and started cutting it up into finer and finer chunks?
- So I started to talk about this idea with my students, and the idea that if I kept cutting, eventually I would reach a point where I couldn't cut any finer
- Indivisible, these atoms make up everything in the world
- The idea never caught on. Other philosophers believed in elements and so my idea lay dormant for hundreds of years
