The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky i…

- Anaximander

There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.

- Anaximander

Immortal and indestructible, surrounds all and directs all.

- Anaximander

The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.

- Anaximander