Unbounded Universe Quotes

But the universe is infinite.

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.

If the universe were finite, I could go to the edge of the universe and extend my staff. The end of the staff would then be the end of the universe. But if I went to this edge and extended my staff again, that would be the end of the universe. Therefore, the universe cannot be finite.

I told him that for a modern scientist, practicing experimental research, the least that could be said, is that we do not know. But I felt that such a negative answer was only part of the truth. I told him that in this universe in which we live, unbounded in space, infinite in stored energy and, who knows, unlimited in time, the adequate and positive answer, according to my belief, is that this universe may, also, possess infinite potentialities.

It’s like losing gravity and falling into space – the moment of pitching headlong when the endlessness of space asserts itself and there is no more down, only an eternity of up, and you realize you can fall forever and never run out of stars.

The universe is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

I kind of liked the idea of a universe that always was and always will be.

The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary.

There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary?