Quotes About Inf

Who wants to live forever?

I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds, if you want them to be there.

For the rest of my life?" His voice softens. "Do you want that, Ella May? Do you want me eternally, infinitely, forever, till death do us part?

Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it.

Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

If there was neither a time before nor a time after, then was not the moment of creation eternal and yet for ever instantaneous?

The sky cares nothing for you, dear one. The stars don't even see you.

The worlds live on, beyond us, countless unravelling tales.

One day,' he said, 'we shall walk the Roads to the Abyss. And so witness all the wonders of the universe.

Yet twenty-two trillion is nothing compared to the infinitude of digits that define the actual pi. Think of how philosophically disturbing this is.

Naturally, the place to start is at infinity.

Mathematically, circles embody change without change.

the idea of using infinity to solve difficult geometry problems has to rank as one of the best ideas anyone ever had.

If real numbers are not real, why do mathematicians love them so much?

Pi is fundamentally a child of calculus. It is defined as the unattainable limit of a never-ending process.

Calculus succeeds by breaking complicated problems down into simpler parts. That strategy, of course, is not unique to calculus. All good problem-solvers know that hard problems become easier when they're split into chunks. The truly radical and distinctive move of calculus is that it takes this divide-and-conquer strategy to its utmost extreme — all the way out to infinity.

Infinity lies at the heart of so many of our dreams and fears and unanswerable questions: How big is the universe? How long is forever? How powerful is God? In every branch of human thought, from religion and philosophy to science and mathematics, infinity has befuddled the world's finest minds for thousands of years. It has been banished, outlawed, and shunned. It's always been a dangerous idea.

My heart was deep space and my head was maths

The dreamtime of creative work is a turnstile to eternity. (from Workbok)

The reasons there are so many clichés about universes inside of dewdrops is because there are universes inside of dewdrops.

I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, uncaring in the end.

Then solar systems, galaxies, supernovas, infinite space itself will become elements of a final masterwork--a never-ending festival, a celestial amusement park in which every exploding star and spinning electron is part of the empyreal choreography.

What could split its soul into a thousand pieces? A million? And with it, the answer: God. God could divide Himself infinitesimally. God could fracture his soul into one and a half billion pieces and place a little of it in each and every man and woman walking the earth. And then, as understanding settled, he beheld

the stars. They were yesterday's confetti in the sky, thrown away by a billion careless lovers.