Infinite Quotes - Page 24

• Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes it even more problematic. And so for me, it's got me more engaged with storytelling.

  Alec Soth

  Photography, Growth, Growing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

  Aristotle

  Doe, Needs, Use

  Aristotle (2016). “Physics”, p.82, Aristotle

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• The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Men, Space

  James Clerk Maxwell, Elizabeth Garber, Stephen G. Brush, C. W. Francis Everitt (1986). “Maxwell on Molecules and Gases”, p.138, MIT Press

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• All the species recognized by Botanists came forth from the Almighty Creator's hand, and the number of these is now and always will be exactly the same, while every day new and different florists' species arise from the true species so-called by Botanists, and when they have arisen they finally revert to the original forms. Accordingly to the former have been assigned by Nature fixed limits, beyond which they cannot go: while the latter display without end the infinite sport of Nature.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Sports, Science, Hands

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• Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They have increased the standards of living and comfort. They have eliminated infinite drudgery. They have increased leisure. But that gives more time for devilment. The work of science has eliminated much disease and suffering. It has increased the length of life. That, together with increase in productivity, has resulted in vastly increased populations. Also it increased the number of people engaged in devilment.

  Herbert Hoover

  Life, Science, Animal

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• Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number of links. The whole art of politics lies in finding and taking as firm a grip as we can of the link that is least likely to be struck from our hands, the one that is most important at the given moment, the one that most of all guarantees its possessor the possession of the whole chain.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Running, Art, Lying

  Vladimir Ilích Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (1988). “What is to be done?”, Penguin Classics

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• Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite.

  Victor Cousin

  Art, Ethics, Morality

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• Each of us comes into this world separately, one by one. This is not an accident. I think it's the Lord's way of reminding us of the infinite worth of each soul.

  Dwan J. Young

  Thinking, Soul, World

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• Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Devil, Fiction, Infinity

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• Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God's holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.

  Johnny Cash

  Heart, Sadness, Blue

  Song: Love Is The Way, Album: Heroes, 1986

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• God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.

  Johannes Tauler

  God, Long, Water

  Gottesfreund (im Oberland.), Rulman Merswin, Johannes Tauler (1857). “The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: with twenty-five of his sermons (Temp. 1340)”, p.293

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• Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy.

  Criss Jami

  Legacy, Wealth, Values

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.51, Criss Jami

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• Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity was simply what enabled one to read uninterruptedly for ever.

  Dervla Murphy

  Heaven, Library, Unions

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• The sharp knife of dawn glitters in my hand but how bare is everything-tall tall tree infinite air, the unrelaxing tension of the world and only hope, hope only, the kind eagle soars and wheels in flight.

  Martin Carter

  Hope, Eagles, Hands

  Martin Carter (1964). “Poems of Resistance”

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• Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

  Max Beckmann

  Space, Deities, Surround

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.302, University of Chicago Press

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• The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources.

  Jared Diamond

  Land, Long, Water

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• Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, May, Someday

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• There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

  David Eagleman

  Numbers, Boring, Things To Do

  "The Possibilian" by Burkhard Bilger, www.newyorker.com. April 25, 2011.

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• A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.259, Spectra

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• We are educated to be amazed by the infinite variety of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the beginning of being flabbergasted by its unity.

  Lewis Thomas

  Inspirational, Nature, Educational

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• Far away, to an infinite world I escape. I'm clear and calm, I'm unafraid. Sunless days, in my sheltered milkyway. In Saturn's rings I feel no pain.

  Paula Cole

  Pain, Saturn, World

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• Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?

  Hugh MacDiarmid

  Scotland, Scots

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• Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for he identifies it as air; and it differs in its substantial nature by rarity and density. Being made finer it becomes fire; being made thicker it becomes wind, then cloud, then (when thickened still more) water, then earth, then stones; and the rest come into being from these.

  Theophrastus

  Science, Fire, Clouds

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• Infinite mercy flows continually
  But you're asleep and can't see it.

  Rumi

  Flow, Awareness, Mercy

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• My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to.

  Henry Adams

  Science, Technology, Energy

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.424, Harvard University Press

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