Quotes About Inf

He looks across to the fires. He thinks: The universe is full of fuel.

Grandfather said that the ocean was large enough to contain every dream everyone had ever dreamed, but until now he had no comprehension of what that meant.

the whisper of space being compressed.

The universe is full of fuel.

Four or five or six or a million heartbeats roll by.

and inside this universe spin countless galaxies

Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.

the littlest streams, high on the mountain, small enough to dam with your hand, would eventually join the river, and that the river, though quick and violent, was but a drop in the eye of the great Ocean that encircles all the lands of the world, and contains every dream everyone has ever dreamed.

tapping Zeno's

Como chamamos a luz visível? Chamamos de cor. Mas o espectro eletromagnético corre ao zero em uma direção e ao infinito na outra, então, na verdade, crianças, matematicamente, toda luz é invisível.

Quantos labirintos existem neste mundo. Os galhos das árvores, as filigranas das raízes, a matriz dos cristais, as ruas que o pai dela tinha recriado nas maquetes. Labirintos nas saliências de conchas de múrex, nas texturas da casca de plátanos e dentro dos ossos ocos das águias. Nada mais complicado do que o cérebro humano, diria Etienne, a coisa mais complexa que existe; um orgão, dentro do qual giram universos.

The sea is only a receptacle for all the prodigious, supernatural things that exist inside it. It is only movement and love; it is the living infinite.

all times and all stories being one and the same in the end.

The love for your kids, I'm learning, is a kind of love that has no conclusion, a feeling that multiplies back on itself.

What is time? he wrote in his pad. Must time occur in sequence—beginning to middle to end—or is this only one way to perceive it? Maybe time can spill and freeze and retreat; maybe time is like water, endlessly cycling through its states.

the way time here feels simultaneously immense and tiny.

What do we call visible light? We call it color. But the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in one direction and infinity in the other, so really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible.

A small but typical example of how 'philosophy' sends out new shoots is to be found in the case of Georg Cantor, a nineteenth-century German mathematician. His research on the subject of infinity was at first written off by his scientific colleagues as mere 'philosophy' because it seemed so bizarre, abstract and pointless. Now it is taught in schools under the name of set-theory.

The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.

FOR EVER AND ALL ETERNITY.

Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.

That is a long word: forever!

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

The rocks would be there a million years after the light went for the last time out.