Anaxagoras Quotes

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.

The vastness of Russia devours us.

The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite? Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.

Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.

What does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way, it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse.

No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Seeing everything means recognizing the ultimate fact that all things that exist are mutually connected into a single whole, even if the connections between them are not yet known to us.

I love the sea because it is boundless.

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end... when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words.

Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound.

What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

The many become one and are increased by one.

The universe is a single atom: the convergence of science and spirituality.

You cannot conceive the many without the one.