In other words, theory couldn’t be detached from everyday experience. This line of thinking isn’t just appropriate for science classrooms and laboratories. It’s applicable in business, too.

Helene Weiss, Democritus' Theory of Cognition: (A Discussion of Two Aristotelian Passages concerning Democritus), The Classical Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Jan., 1938 ...

Just as tragedy or comedy can be written with the same letters of the alphabet, so, according to Democritus’ theory, can very different happenings in the world be produced by the same atoms.