Giordano Bruno Quotes


Innumerable spirits and souls, when spread out through the same space, do not interfere with each other such that the diffusion of one would affect the diffusion of an infinity of others.


Citations

Bruno, Giordano. Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic. Translated by Richard J. Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, 1998, p. 116.

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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
  • Born: February 17, 1600
  • Died: February 17, 1600
  • Nationality: Italian
  • Profession: Philosopher

Giordano Bruno was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, cosmological theorist, and Hermetic occultist. He is known for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended the then-novel Copernican model. He proposed that the stars were distant suns surrounded by their own planets, and he raised the possibility that these planets might foster life of their own, a cosmological position known as cosmic pluralism. He also insisted that the universe is infinite and could have no "center".