“If in a certain cataclysm, where all of the scientific knowledge is to be destroyed, but only one sentence is to be passed down to the next generations of creatures, what would be the best thing, the thing that contains the most information in the least number of words?

I believe it is the atomic hypothesis, that all things are made out of atoms, little that move around, are in perpetual motion, attract each other when they’re some distance apart, but repel being squeezed into one another.”

almost a quote from Richard Feynman ;)