Rick Bishop.Net
Project SETI
The universe is infinitely wide.
Its vastness holds innumerable atoms.
So it must be unthinkable that
Our sky and our round world are precious and unique...
Out beyond our world are elsewhere,
other assemblages of matter making other worlds.
Ours is not the only one in airs embrace.
Lucretius
first century B.C.
Heaven and Earth are large,
yet in the whole of space they are but as a grain of rice...
How unreasonable it would be to suppose that,
besides the heaven and earth which we can see,
there are no other heavens and earths.
Teng Mu
13th century
Innumerable suns exist;
innumerable earths revolve about these suns in a manner
similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun.
Living beings inhabit these worlds.
Giordano Bruno
16th century
Why may not every one of these stars or suns have as great a retinue
as our sun of planets,
with their moons,
to wait upon them?
They must have their plants and animals,
nay and their rational creatures too,
and those as great admirers,
and as diligent observers of the heavens as ourselves...
Christiaan Huygens
17th century
To consider the Earth as the only populated world
in infinite space is absurd as to assert that in an
entire field of millet, only one grain will grow.
Metrodorus
4th century B.C.
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