Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
GIORDANO BRUNOGod is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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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.
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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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There is no law governing all things.
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The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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There is one basic cause of all effects.
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Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.
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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.
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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
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Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and “fashionable”) the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified.
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They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
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The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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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.
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There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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That which we have lived is nothing; that which we live is a point; that which we have to live is not yet a point, but may be a point which, together, shall be and shall have been.
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