Ancient Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal.

— Swami Vivekananda

The Infinite is only a manner of speaking.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is as impossible for an aggregation of finites to comprehend or exhaust one infinite as it is for the greater number of mathematic…

— Robert Boyle

“Before the work of Georg Cantor in the nineteenth century, the study of the infinite was as much theology as science; now, we understand…

— Jordan Ellenberg

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is…

— Thomas de Quincey

“Nature constantly begins the same things over again, years, days, hours, spaces too. And numbers run end to end, one after another. This makes…

— Blaise Pascal

Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.

— William Jones

“it seems as though Descartes (once more influenced by ideas from previous philosophical traditions) may have slipped into thinking that an idea of X…

— Simon Blackburn

Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number,…

— Saint Augustine