Quotes of Infinity
"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man."- David Hilbert, Mathematician
"Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude."
- Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."
- Galileo, Astronomer and Physicist
"There is infinitly more to life than what appears on the surface."
- Thomas P. Ehrenzeller, Author
"There can not be more infinities than one; for one of them would limit the other."
- Sir Walter Raleigh, Explorer
"One must say then that the mass of seeming irrationalities, anomalies, contradictions, and proliferation, infinities may be the most important part of any science. They drive the accumulation of knowledge."
- George Zebrowski, Author
"Why do we try so hard to believe in a finite universe of preconcieved limits? Through the holes in imagined finity, I gimpsed infinity and gratefully grasped for the mental freedom it offered."
- Thomas P. Ehrenzeller, Author
"I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space."
- Hamlet, Shakespearian Character
"Number is the bond of eternal continuance of things."
- Plato, Philosopher
"To protect my sanity, I had to believe that infinity was a comprehensible thing."
- Clarke Punkford, Mathematician
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
- William Blake, Poet
"The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity."
- Alan Watts, Philosopher
"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite."
- George Bancroft, Transcendentalist
"You wonder and you wonder until you wander out into Infinity, where-if it is to be found anywhere-truth really exists."
- Marita Bonner, Author
"..considering the infinite complexity of the relations of all organic beings to each other and to their conditions of life, causing an infinite diversity in structure, constitution, and habits, to be advantageous to them, it would be a most extraordinary fact if no variations had ever occurred useful to each being’s own welfare..."
- Charles Darwin, Naturalist
"If it [the universe] was expanding fairly slowly, the force of gravity would cause it eventually to stop expanding and then to start contracting. However, if it was expanding at more than a certain critical rate, gravity would never be strong enough to stop it, and the universe would continue to expand forever."
- Stephen Hawking, Physicist
"Because of our infinite potential, it matters that we awaken to the infinity of which we are a part."
- Thomas P. Ehrenzeller, Author