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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature

23229	Nature is wholly interconnected, and the tiniest change affects everything [Fichte]
	Full Idea: Nature is an interconnected whole; …you could shift no grain of sand from its spot without thereby, perhaps invisibly to your eyes, changing something in all parts of the immeasurable whole.
	From: Johann Fichte (The Vocation of Man [1800], 1)
	A reaction: Sounds like idealist daydreaming, but might it actually be true with respect to gravity?

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]
	Full Idea: Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless.
	From: report of Archelaus (fragments/reports [c.450 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 02.Ar.3