I am undecided whether or not the visible Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them.


In: Eli Maor, To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite (p. 217), Birkhäuser. 1987

Johann Heinrich Lambert Quotes

I am undecided whether or not the visible Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these...

I am undecided whether or not the visible Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these...

I am undecided whether or not the visible Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these...

I am undecided whether or not the visible Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these...