Quotes About Inf

The clock indicates the moment - but what does eternity indicate?

Allons! to that which is endless as it was beginningless.

Man is very capable of imagining infinite happiness, and he should be able to grasp the infinity of space—I

Scientists who proclaim that space comes to an end somewhere are under some obligation to tell us what lies beyond it.

Time is the "moving image of eternity."12

Opening and closing spirals constitute the heartbeat of the universe.

You never get tired of looking at the stars

Past—present—future in a timeless dimension are simply all occurring at the same time, even if our time-based dimension sees it otherwise.

We are all infinite spiritual beings having a temporary human experience, and

experience life on the active side of infinity, knowing yourself first and foremost as a spiritual being

Che differenza c'è infatti, fra trent'anni e sei mesi, rispetto all'eternità? La durata di una vita è paragonabile a un puntolino

experience life on the active side of infinity, knowing yourself first and foremost as a spiritual being having a temporary human experience, rather than the other way around.

Realize your essence and you will witness the end without ending.

Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

A poem is a 'line' between any two points in creation.

Zero is powerful because it is infinity's twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling. The biggest questions in science and religion are about nothingness and eternity, the void and the infinite, zero and infinity. The clashes over zero were the battles that shook the foundations of philosophy, of science, of mathematics, and of religion. Underneath every revolution lay a zero – and an infinity.

This is the definition of the infinite: it is something that can stay the same size even when you subtract from it.

The infinite zero of a black hole-mass crammed into zero space, curving space infinitely-punches a hole in the smooth rubber sheet. The equations of general relativity cannot deal with the sharpness of zero. In a black hole, space and time are meaningless.

In the battle between Kronecker and Cantor, Cantor would ultimately prevail. Cantor's theory would show that Kronecker's precious integers-and even the rational numbers-were nothing at all. They were an infinite zero.

Zero is powerful because it is infinity's twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang.

If the photographers are soul-thieves, whose soul is being stolen in a photograph of the night sky? The soul of the last one to go to bed and the soul of the first one to rise in the morning, perhaps? Photography is a black art like alchemy. It turns matter into spirit and spirit into matter. Still, there are moments when looking at a photograph of a night sky we have a hunch what the word soul means, what the word infinity encompasses.

In a slick manifesto called Cosmos, Carl Sagan artfully packaged his own creed: "The Cosmos is all there is, or was, or ever will be.

Over the white curve he had looked into incredible space; abysses of intelligence lay beyond it.

It's a staircase in a house built by the construction firm of Escher and Sons.