Lucretius - Universe Quotes

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It was certainly not by design that the particles fell into order, they did not work out what they were going to do, but because many of them by many chances struck one another in the course of infinite time and encountered every possible form and movement, that they found at last the disposition they have, and that is how the universe was created.

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The lively power of his mind prevailed, and forth he marched far beyond the flaming walls of the heavens, as he traversed the immeasurable universe in thought and imagination.

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The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind.

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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

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Give your mind now to the true reasoning I have to unfold. A new fact is battling strenuously for access to your ears. A new aspect of the Universe is striving to reveal itself. But no fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation.

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The existing universe is bounded in none of its dimensions; for then it must have an outside.

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And so some day, The mighty ramparts of the mighty universe Ringed round with hostile force, Will yield and face decay and come crumbling to ruin.

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