Giordano Bruno Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark. There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.

  Giordano Bruno

  Dark, Light, Space

  "Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe". Book by Martin J. Rees (p. 22), 2000.

• God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.

  Giordano Bruno

  Greatness, Excellence, World

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

• Since I have spread my wings to purpose high,
  The more beneath my feet the clouds I see,
  The more I give the winds my pinions free,
  Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.

  Giordano Bruno

  Clouds, Wind, Sky

  "Giordano Bruno: Philosopher and Martyr". Book by Thomas Davidson, 1890.

• Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar
  to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.

  Giordano Bruno

  World, Earth, Way

• There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.

  Giordano Bruno

  Stars, Science, Space

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

• My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first, I regard them as earth's heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.

  Giordano Bruno

  Believe, Hero, Son

  Giordano Bruno (1962). “Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues”

• When the end comes, you will be esteemed by the world and rewarded by God, not because you have won the love and respect of the princes of the earth, however powerful, but rather for having loved, defended and cherished one such as I. What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.

  Giordano Bruno

  Powerful, World, Earth

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

• I have declared infinite worlds to exist beside this our earth. It would not be worthy of God to manifest Himself in less than an infinite universe.

  Giordano Bruno

  World, Earth, Infinite

• I don't care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth.

  Giordano Bruno

  Stars, Heaven, Earth

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