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Quotes from On the Infinite Universe and Worlds — Giordano Bruno

1548–1600 Italy

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In it are an infinity of worlds of the same kind as our own.

On the Infinite Universe and Worlds (1584)

I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.

On the Infinite Universe and Worlds (1584)

To a body of infinite size there can be ascribed neither centre nor boundary... Thus the Earth no more than any other world is at the centre.

On the Infinite Universe and Worlds (1584)

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.

On the Infinite Universe and Worlds (1584)

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.

On the Infinite Universe and Worlds (1584)

I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite.
And while I rise from my own globe to others
And penetrate ever further through the eternal field,
That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.

On the Infinite Universe and Worlds (1584)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Giordano Bruno (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.