Democritus Democritus by Luca Giordano (c.1690). DEMOCRITUS (Wiki) “In reality, nothing but atoms and the void.” Democritus of Adbers, Greek Philosopher (460B.C.-371 B.C) These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination. Democritus of Abdera Quoted in Aristotle, Metaphysics A 4 985b 13-16. Trans. Hugh Tredennick (1933), Vol. 1, 31