Thales of Miletus maxims

The most ancient of beings: God, for he is uncreated.
The most beautiful thing: the universe, for it is god’s creation.
The largest thing: space, for it contains all things.
The quickest thing: mind, for it runs through everything.
The strongest thing: necesety, for it masters everything.
The wisest thing: time, for it discovers everything.

Diogenes Laertius - Lives of the eminent philosophers

Quantum physics in Montaigne

There is some element of multiplicity within every species; it seems unlikely,  therefore, that God made only this one universe and no other like it, or that all the matter available for this Form should have been exhausted on this one Particular.

Michel de Montaigne - An apology for Raymond Sebond (The Complete Essays, II, 12)