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Your Quotes for 17 November 2005 - Infinity

August Ferdinand Möbius, the German mathematician and astronomer, was born at Schulpforta, Saxony on this day in 1790. He was one of two independent discoverers of the Möbius Strip, the most common visual aid in going beyond the borders of linearity and finite space. So here are some thoughts on infinity.

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
     - Blaise Pascal, 1623 - 1662

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
     - Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 - 1519

This is the truth: As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
     - Maitri Upanishad

The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.
     - Franz Kafka, 1883 - 1924

Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are when combined.
     - Galileo Galilei, 1564 - 1642

A sine curve goes off to infinity or at least the end of the blackboard.
     - Professor Steiner

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