8659 | The gods alone live forever with Shamash. The days of humans are numbered. [Anon (Gilg)] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5093 | Continuity depends on infinity, because the continuous is infinitely divisible [Aristotle] |
5095 | The heavens seem to be infinite, because we cannot imagine their end [Aristotle] |
8660 | There are potential infinities (never running out), but actual infinity is incoherent [Aristotle, by Friend] |
14032 | Totality has no edge; an edge implies a contrast beyond the edge, and there can't be one [Epicurus] |
14033 | Bodies are unlimited as well as void, since the two necessarily go together [Epicurus] |
22743 | Unlike Epicurus, Stoics distinguish the Whole from the All, with the latter including the void [Stoic school, by Sext.Empiricus] |
5704 | There can be no centre in infinity [Lucretius] |
5703 | The universe must be limitless, since there could be nothing outside to limit it [Lucretius] |
4821 | An infinite line can be marked in feet or inches, so one infinity is twelve times the other [Spinoza] |
18519 | If there were infinite electrons, they could vanish without affecting total mass-energy [Heil] |
9635 | Given atomism at one end, and a finite universe at the other, there are no physical infinities [Brown,JR] |
20469 | There are probably no infinities, and 'infinite' names what we do not yet know [Rovelli] |