According to Harrison, the first to conceive of anything like the paradox was Thomas Digges, who was also the first to expound the Copernican system in English and may have been the first to postulate an infinite universe with infinitely many stars.

According to these scriptures, Amitābha possesses infinite merits resulting from good deeds over countless past lives as a bodhisattva named Dharmakāra.

According to the historian of science Norwood Russell Hanson: There is no bilaterally-symmetrical, nor excentrically-periodic curve used in any branch of astrophysics or observational astronomy which could not be smoothly plotted as the resultant motion of a point turning within a constellation of epicycles, finite in number, revolving around a fixed deferent. Any path — periodic or not, closed or open — can be represented with an infinite number of epicycles.

According to Aristotle, a future span of time must be a potential infinity, because another element can always be added to a series that is inexhaustible: " For generally the infinite has this mode of existence: one thing is always being taken after another, and each thing that is taken is always finite, but always different ".

According to Spiral Dynamics, there are infinite stages of progress and regression over time dependent upon the life circumstances of the person / culture, which are constantly in flux.

According to Brazil's national act number 5, 700 of 1 September 1971, the flag portrays the stars as they would be seen by an imaginary observer an infinite distance above Rio de Janeiro standing outside the firmament in which the stars are meant to be placed.

According to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Universe has an infinite area ( as far as anyone can make out ), no imports whatsoever ( because the Universe has no outside from which to import anything ), exports ( ditto ), art ( because " the function of art is to hold a mirror up to nature, and there simply isn't a mirror big enough "), or population ( because its population, by definition, must be finite, and the number of planets is infinite, as there is infinite space to put them in ; not all planets are inhabited, and any finite number divided by infinity is zero, or as near to it as makes no odds ), or sex ( well, there is an awful lot of this, largely because of the total lack of anything else that might keep the non-existent people of the universe occupied ).

According to Hegel, Haller realizes that a conception of eternity as infinite progress is " futile and empty ".

According to Holmes, " Men make their own laws ... these laws do not flow from some mysterious omnipresence in the sky, and ... judges are not independent mouthpieces of the infinite.

According to Burbidge, the universe is oscillatory and as such expands and contracts periodically over infinite time.

According to the Greek geographer Strabo, Seleucus was also the first to assume the universe to be infinite.

According to Advaita as taught by Sankara, saguna brahman refers to the lord identical with his own infinite jnanam.

According to Thurston's geometrization conjecture, proved by Perelman, any closed, irreducible, atoroidal 3-manifold with infinite fundamental group is hyperbolic.

According to this sura, all wonders of the natural world, like seas, stars, mountains are proofs of God's infinite power.

According to Waters, the hole has paranormal properties, including a possibly infinite depth and the ability to restore dead animals to life.

According to art critic Robert C. Morgan, Sommer's " most extravagant, subtle, majestic, and impressive photographs — comparable in many ways to the views of Yosemite Valley ’ s El Capitan and Half Dome by Ansel Adams — were Sommer ’ s seemingly infinite desert landscapes, some of which he referred to as ' constellations.

According to Chomsky, competence is the ' ideal ' language system that makes it possible for speakers to produce and understand an infinite number of sentences in their language, and to distinguish grammatical sentences from ungrammatical sentences.

According to Chomsky, it is regarded to be innate because one does not have to be trained to develop it and will still be able to apply it in an infinite number of unheard examples.

According to The Chicago Tribune News Service, State Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk of California has devised a series of questions which the joiner might well ask about any organization seeking his money and his name: 1.

According to Nate Silver, the advent of this playoff series, and especially of the wild card, has caused teams to focus more on " getting to the playoffs " rather than " winning the pennant " as the primary goal of the regular season.

According to Milligan, the columns had been an influence on the comedic style of his radio series, The Goon Show.

According to the Official Buffy Watcher's Guide, Whedon wrote the pilot to the TV series as a sequel to his original script, which is why the show makes references to events not occurred in the film.

According to the book, the prophet, exiled in Babylon, experienced a series of seven visions during the 22 years from 593 to 571 BC, a period which spans the final destruction of Jerusalem in 586.

According to Husserl, this view of logic and mathematics accounted for the objectivity of a series of mathematical developments of his time, such as n-dimensional manifolds ( both Euclidean and non-Euclidean ), Hermann Grassmann's theory of extensions, William Rowan Hamilton's Hamiltonians, Sophus Lie's theory of transformation groups, and Cantor's set theory.

According to Cay Van Ash, Rohmer's biographer and former assistant who became the first author to continue the series after Rohmer's death, " Fu Manchu " was a title of honour, which meant " the Warlike Manchu.

According to the show's producer, Sam Lovullo, the ratings showed improvement with these classic reruns ; however, the series was finally canceled in 1993 at the conclusion of its 25th season.

According to Nicholas Delbanco, UM English Professor and Director of the Hopwood Awards Program, " This is the oldest and best known series of writing prizes in the country and it is a very good indicator of future success.

According to the same index series, even " dedicated short bias " funds had a return of − 6. 08 % during September 2008.

According to Dave Filoni, supervising director of the animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the look of the Police ' droid is based on the appearance of the Keystone Kops.

According to a personal statistics file displayed on a computer screen in the series, Edison is 6 ' 2 ", weighing 180 pounds.

According to the U. S. National Center for Health Statistics, as well as a 2006 series in the Charleston ( West Virginia ) Gazette, medical examiners listed methadone as contributing to 3, 849 deaths in 2004.

According to the PBS series, the most common " non-black " mix is English and Scots-Irish.

According to the foreword of Ubik: The Screenplay ( by Tim Powers, a friend of Dick's and fellow science fiction writer ), Dick had an idea for the film which involved " the film itself appearing to undergo a series of reversions: to black-and-white, then to the awkward jerkiness of very early movies, then to a crookedly jammed frame which proceeds to blacken, bubble and melt away, leaving only the white glare of the projection bulb, which in turn deteriorates to leave the theater in darkness, and might almost leave the moviegoer wondering what sort of dilapidated, antique jalopy he'll find his car-keys fitting when he goes outside.

According to their accounts, the huge rent in the Andes, the Pongo, is about five or six miles ( 10 km ) long, and in places not more than 80 feet ( 25 m ) wide, and is a frightful series of torrents and whirlpools interspersed with rocks.

According to co-creator Berman, he and Piller had considered setting the new series on a colony planet, but they felt a space station would both appeal more to viewers and save money that would be required for on-location shooting for a " land-based " show.

According to series ' producers it was intended to be enjoyed by the entire family.

According to both Roddenberry and an NBC press release, this was the justification for six additional episodes being ordered by the network for the series ' second season.

According to the 2009 film Star Trek and the prequel comic series Star Trek: Countdown, Romulus ( and presumably Remus ) is destroyed in 2387 by a star going supernova.

According to The Star Trek Encyclopedia, the registry number " NCC-1701 " was devised by Matt Jefferies, art director of the first Star Trek series, inspired by an old science fiction cover that Gene Roddenberry liked, with a starship flying through space.

According to Kawamori, his pitch for the series was simple: " if Macross was robotic mecha and love songs, why not a story about robotic mecha and divining powers?

According to The Prisoner: The Official Companion to the Classic TV Series, however, the series was originally supposed to run longer, but was canceled, forcing McGoohan to write the final episode in only a few days.

According to Macnee in his book The Avengers and Me, Rigg disliked wearing leather and insisted on a new line of fabric athletic wear for the 5th series.

According to the official accident report, after the first officer made his initial rudder pedal input, he made a series of alternating full rudder inputs.