Giordano Bruno
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"Giordano Bruno", born "Filippo Bruno", was an Italian Dominican Order/Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and astrologer. He is celebrated for his cosmological theories, which went even further than the then-novel Copernican heliocentrism/Copernican model, proposing that the stars were just distant suns surrounded by their own exoplanets, and moreover the possibility that these planets could even foster life of their own (a philosophical position known as cosmic pluralism). He also insisted that the Universe is in fact infinite, thus having no celestial body at its "center".

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Time takes all and gives all.

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

There is no law governing all things.

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 contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.

With luck on your side, you can do without brains.

We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.