The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature … - Leon M. Lederman

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Leon M. Lederman

The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.

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