“But Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.” (Aristotle, “Generation of Animals”)
“There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call Void: in it are innumerable globes like this on which we live and grow; this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign it a limit.” (Giordano Bruno)
"Just as the stone thrown into the water becomes the centre and cause of various circles, [so] the sound made in the air spreads out in circles and fills the surrounding parts with an infinite number of images of itself." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author." (Gottfried W Leibniz)
“What is man in nature? A Nothing in comparison with the Infinite, an All in comparison with the Nothing, a mean between nothing and everything. Since he is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the Nothing from which he was made, and the Infinite in which he is swallowed up.” (Blaise Pascal, "Pensées", 1670)
"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere." (Blaise Pascal, "Pensées", 1670)
“In an infinite number universe, every point can be regarded as the center, because every point has an infinite of stars on each side of it.” (Stephen Hawking, "A Brief History of Time", 1988)
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