Tyson narrates how Greek philosophers Thales and Democritus postulated that all matter was made up of combinations of atoms in a large number of configurations, and describes how carbon serves as the basic building block for life on Earth due to its unique chemical nature.
Tyson menceritakan bagaimana filsuf Yunani Thales dan Democritus memaparkan bahwa semua materi terbuat dari kombinasi atom dengan berbagai macam konfigurasi, dan menjelaskan bagaimana karbon membentuk dasar kehidupan di Bumi karena sifat kimiawinya yang unik.