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Quote by Nicholas of Cusa

“Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance which is peculiarly his own; and the better a man will have known his own ignorance, the greater his learning will be.”

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Nicholas of Cusa

Nicholas of Cusa, born in 1401 and died on August 11, 1464, was a versatile scholar, philosopher, theologian, and mathematician whose ideas had a profound impact on posterity, particularly in the development of humanism and the scientific method. more

“The world has no circumference. It would certainly have a circumference if it had a centre, in which case it would contain within itself its own beginning and end; and that would mean that there was some other thing which imposed a limit to the world - another being existing in space outside the world. All of these conclusions are false. Since, then, the world cannot be enclosed within a material circumference and centre, it is unintelligible without God as its centre and circumference.”

Ifs World Mean Ends Space Cases Materials Limits Conclusion Centre Without God Beginnings And Ends

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“A given circle cannot be so true that a truer one cannot be found; and the movement of a sphere at one moment is never precisely equal to its movement at another, nor does it ever describe two circles similar and equal, even if from appearances the opposite may seem true.”

Ifs May Doe Two Moments Seems Found Given Movement Equal Opposites Appearance Circles Spheres

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“There will be a machina mundi whose centre, so to speak, is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere, for God is its circumference and centre and He is everywhere and nowhere.”

Speak Centre

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“Nor is the darkness of colour a proof of the earth's baseness; for the brightness of the sun, which is visible to us, would not be perceived by anyone who might be in the sun.”

Might Earth Darkness Sun Proof Colour Visible Brightness Baseness

Author:Nicholas of Cusa