"I am so in favor of the actual……" — Georg Cantor

I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of… - Georg Cantor

"I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author. Thus I believe that there is no part of matter which is not - I do not say divisible - but actually divisible; and consequently the least particle ought to be considered as a world full of an infinity of different creatures."

— Georg Cantor

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