Jean-Paul Sartre - Wendell Holmes - Martin Luther King - Woody Allen - Karl Popper - Max Weber - Ethan Hawke - Morris Kline -
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point. Jean-Paul Sartre
Civilisation is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. Oliver Wendell Holmes
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King junior
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers space is finite. This is a very comforting thought – particularly for people who can never remember where they have lost things. Woody Allen
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. Karl Popper
All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is ‘important’ in the sense of being ‘worthy of being known’. Max Weber
There’s something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious. Ethan Hawke
Aristotle had considered the question of whether space is infinite and gave six nonmathematical arguments to prove that it is finite; he foresaw that this question would be troublesome. Morris Kline, Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times, 1972