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Quotes About Inf

I'm not really into sci-fi movies, but I'm into the science of space a lot. I love astronomy and thinking about the nothingness of the everythingness of space.
~ Milana Vayntrub
An exquisitely complex shape now known as the Mandlebrot set has been called the most complex object in mathematics.
~ Benoit Mandelbrot
My feeling is that if there are that many billions of stars, maybe someone is saying exactly what I'm saying at this moment. I don't know. It's not something I'm obsessed by or think about all the time, but I certainly open to thinking it could be.
~ Blythe Danner
Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
~ Norton Juster
But that can never be, said Milo, jumping to his feet. Don't be too sure, said the child patiently, for one of the nicest things about mathematics, or anything else you might care to learn, is that many of the things which can never be, often are. You see, he went on, it's very much like your trying to reach Infinity. You know that it's there, but you just don't know where — but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.
~ Norton Juster
just follow that line forever, said the Mathemagician, and when you reach the end, turn left. There you'll find the land of Infinity, where the tallest, the shortest, the biggest, the smallest, and the most and least of everything are kept. I don't have that much time, said Milo anxiously. isn't there a quicker way? Well, you might try this flight of stairs, he suggested, opening another door and pointing up.It goes there, too.
~ Norton Juster
and I've heard that they walk among the stars.
~ Norton Juster
You see," he went on, "it's very much like your trying to reach Infinity. You know that it's there, but you just don't know where—but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.
~ Norton Juster
You wouldn't like it much anyway," someone replied gently. "Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
~ Norton Juster
El amor es intensidad y por esto es una distensión del tiempo: estira los minutos y los alarga como siglos.
~ Octavio Paz
Light is time reflecting on time.
~ Octavio Paz
The night embraces me, cool and endless, and above me the stars are tiny holes in the darkness through which the light of eternity is pouring out. I can almost sense primordial stardust flowing through my veins. People are forever telling me that stars make them feel small, and I always nod noncommittally and wonder at the stuffy confinement of their minds. Stars make me feel vast.
~ Olga Grushin
BaÅŸkalar? doÄŸaya bak?nca orada kendi s?n?rlar?n?, yetersizliklerini, korkular?n? görürler. Sonra kendi zay?fl?klar?ndan korkup doÄŸan?n s?n?rs?zl???, büyüklüÄŸü, derler buna.
~ Orhan Pamuk
By then I'd already learned that thoughts sometimes come to us in words, and sometimes in images. There were some thoughts - such as a memory of running under the pouring rain, and how it felt - that I couldn't even begin to put into words … Yet their image was clear in my mind. And there were other things that I could describe in words but were otherwise impossible to visualize: black light, my mother's death, infinity.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The past and the future are both part of a single continuum
~ Connie Willis
They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Ever is a long time.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Ever's a long time.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I suppose it should be a comfort to understand that one cannot be dead forever where there's no forever to be dead in.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Like the great pendulum in its rotunda scribing through the long day movements of the universe of which you may say it knows nothing and yet know it must.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Every step you take is forever
~ Cormac McCarthy
Aldrig mer är en lång tid. Men pojken visste det han visste. Att aldrig mer inte är någon tid alls.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He never sleeps. He says that he will never die.
~ Cormac McCarthy