Letter to Herodotus, 9

Epicurus  translated by Robert Drew Hicks

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9The atoms are in continual motion through all eternity. Some of them rebound to a considerable distance from each other, while others merely oscillate in one place when they chance to have got entangled or to be enclosed by a mass of other atoms shaped for entangling.

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