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Quotes About Inf

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
~ Galileo Galilei
To me, a great ineptitude exists on the part of those who would have it that God made the universe more in proportion to the small capacity of their reason than to His immense, His infinite, power.
~ Galileo Galilei
There is not a single effect in Nature, not even the least that exists, such that the most ingenious theorists can ever arrive at a complete understanding of it. This vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never understanding anything. For anyone who had experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is attained, would recognise that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.
~ Galileo Galilei
The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us.
~ Galileo Galilei
I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God's help.
~ Galileo Galilei
Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the universe.
~ Galileo Galilei
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
~ Zhuangzi
When looking through the spiritual eye, or the third eye encased within the human mind, one can see vividly beyond the ken of human eyesight, beyond the material atom, and into the future, thereby transcending the limitations of time and space.
~ Alice Coltrane
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
~ Thomas Merton
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.
~ Alan Guth
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
~ Charles Baudelaire
A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.
~ Georg Cantor
The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the sky white with starlight. I saw a million stars with one eye and two million with both.
~ William Least Heat-Moon
Heh is a formless god and is the depiction of infinity and eternity. He is one of the oldest Egyptian gods and is also the god of time and long life.
~ Roy Jackson
You are an Universe of Universes and your soul a source of songs.
~ Ruben Dario
No one can point to the fourth dimension, yet it is all around us.
~ Rudy Rucker
A day, whether six or seven ago, or more than six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why? Because all time is contained in the present Now-moment.
~ Rudy Rucker
When I was a child I remember days that stretched into infinity with the certainty of other infinite days; certain, unhurried and brimmingly full.
~ Rumer Godden
There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.
~ Rumi
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
~ Rumi
for everytime I see the sky I'm aware of belonging to the universe than to just one corner of the earth.
~ Ruskin Bond