Anaxagoras

(noun.) a presocratic Athenian philosopher who maintained that everything is composed of very small particles that were arranged by some eternal intelligence (500-428 BC).

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• Anaxagoras, greatly daring, thought the sun and moon were vast globes, so vast that the sun was probably as big as all the Peloponnesus. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We can imagine how a great mind like that of Pericles might derive elevation from his intercourse with Anaxagoras (PhaeDr.). 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And all the higher class of statesmen have in them something of that idealism which Pericles is said to have gathered from the teaching of Anaxagoras. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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