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(In ancient atomic theory-which already sounds oxymoronic-the random swerve of a particle in a hail of atoms, "Clinamen," is the element of spontaneity which makes everything happen; the incalculable.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper 2009
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The Clinamen, Declination, or Sending of Atoms is a
The Existence of God Fran��ois de Salignac de la Mothe- F��nelon 1683
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Id facit exiguum Clinamen Principiorum Nec regione loci cerca, nec tempore certo«
T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770
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