Giordano Bruno: The beginning, middle,...
The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrarity is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order...
Source: The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast, First Dialogue, Introduction (1588). Quoted in: Giordano Bruno, Cause, Principle, and Unity, sct. 7 (ed. and tr. by Jack Lindsay, 1962).
-- Giordano Bruno, ( 1548-1600), Italian philosopher, astronomer; He argued that the universe was infinite, that it contained an infinite number of worlds, and that these are all inhabited by intelligent beings.
