Infinite Descending Chains

Famous quotes containing the words infinite, descending and/or chains:

    “The universe is then one, infinite, immobile.... It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.”
    —Giordano Bruno (1548–1600)

    “The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the Atlantic, and herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “Habit is the ballast that chains a dog to his vomit.”
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)